ABSTRACT
Dr. Shrikant Daji Limaye graduated in engineering from Poona University, India, and completed his master's in geophysics at the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) followed by his PhD in geology. For the past ¤ve decades, he has been working on national and international assignments in sustainable groundwater development for ensuring good quality and adequate quantity of groundwater. He has been a consultant to farmers for developing groundwater source in their farms for small-scale irrigation. He has also worked extensively on soil and water conservation, watershed development, forestation, and recharge augmentation. Dr. Limaye has widely traveled in over 35 countries and studied groundwater development. He has been associated with several organizations and has presented technical papers in international conferences. ¥e website www.igcp-grownet.org of his UNESCO-IUGS-IGCP project GROWNET has attracted around 27,000 visits so far and is considered to be a unique source of information on groundwater development in low-income countries.
