Recent Trends in Water Research: Hydrogeochemical and Hydrological Perspectives

S. Chidambaram, Reader in Annamalai University: he took his graduation and master's degree in Geology with distinction (gold medal and merit scholarship) from Madurai Kamraj University and Annamalai University (1996) respectively. While being engaged in research as JRF in MoEF project in Annamalai University, completed his PhD in Hydrogeochemistry of groundwater in Erode district, Tamilnadu (2000). During the course of his research work he cleared SLET under UGC and joined as a lecturer in Annamalai University in 1998 and guided few M.Sc., M.Phil and PhD dissertations. He has developed program in C++ for hydro geochemical studies and his work was selected as the best paper in the International conference AHI in 2004. he got few major research projects from DST, UGC & government agencies on ground water quality International and also serving as a technical consultant for BBV, Englandand VRV consultants, Chennai in a project fro a water demand management for the overexploited regions in Chennai in DFID project. He has presented and published few papers in international and national journals.