Himanshu Kulkarni is the executive director and secretary at Advance Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), Pune. He has been actively involved in the advocacy for stronger programmes on groundwater management in India, through his inputs, more recently as Chairman, Working Group on Sustainable Groundwater Management for India’s 12th Five Year Plan. Groundwater resources have held Himanshu’s interest for nearly 30 years now. He holds a PhD in groundwater, has travelled to the US on a Fulbright Scholarship and to Austria as a UNESCO scholar.