Mr. Rajendra P Bhattarai

Raj Bhattarai is the president of Clean Water Strategies in Austin, Texas, and a visiting professor of civil engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He has more than 40 years of experience in water quality management and water resource recovery, almost 35 years of which were at Austin Water.

Raj served as the president of the Water Environment Association of Texas and of the Texas Association of Clean Water Agencies, and as a board member of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, and of the Water Environment Research Foundation, where he also chaired the Research Council.

A Distinguished Alumnus of the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department of the University of Texas at Austin, and a WEF Life Member and a WEF Fellow, Raj currently serves as a WEF Trustee. He has more than 160 presentations and publications to his credit.