Anjal Prakash

Anjal Prakash is Senior Fellow at SaciWATERs, Secunderabad, India, handling research and outreach portfolio under the Crossing Boundaries Project, and Director of Project, Peri-urban Water Security

in South Asia. A graduate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, Dr. Prakash has a PhD in Environmental Science from Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands. He has worked extensively on issues of groundwater management, gender, natural resource management and water supply and sanitation in India. Before joining SaciWATERs, Dr. Prakash worked with the policy team of WaterAid India, based in New Delhi, handling research and implementation projects related to integrated water resources management. He has contributed many papers in leading journals and chapters in several books. He has authored The Dark Zone: Groundwater Irrigation, Politics and Social Power in North Gujarat (2005).