Ramesh Bhatia until his untimely demise in February 2007, was President, Resources and Environment Group, New Delhi. He had long experience of working on international socio-economic and policy issues in the energy and water sectors. His past assignments included Energy Economist and Water Resources Specialist at the World Bank, Global Program Leader at the International Water Management Institute, Member and ... Read moresubsequently Senior Advisor to the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership, Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He also consulted with many international agencies, including the UNDP, UNICEF, ILO, and Asia-Pacific Development Center. Rita E. Cestti is currently a Senior Rural Development Specialist in The Sustainable Development Department for the Latin America and the Caribbean region at the World Bank, Washington, DC. She has managed the identification, preparation and supervision of a number of water-related natural resources, environmental and disaster management projects in several countries and has led the preparation of several pieces of economic sector work. She has conducted extensive economic analysis in terms of sector work and project analysis as well as in-depth research in the areas of economics of water resources, demand management, water allocation, water pricing, water pollution control, and integrated planning. Monica Scatasta is currently the Coordinator of OECD's Water Project on "Sustainable Financing to Ensure Afford-able Access to Water and Sanitation". She is seconded to OECD from the European Investment Bank, where she is a Senior Economist in the Water and Environmental Pro-tection Division. Previously, she has worked for the World Bank and IFPRI in Washington, DC. She also worked in Brazil as part of the team supporting the Environment Ministry, National Water Agency and Paraiba do Sul River Basin Committee in the creation of the basin's water management system. R.P.S. Malik is an economist currently working as a senior faculty member with the Agricultural Economics Research Centre, University of Delhi. He has more than three decades of research experience of working on various issues in agricultural and resource economics, notably on water resources, and has published extensively, including three books, in these areas. He has earlier worked for the World Bank, World Resources Institute, Afro-Asian Rural Development Organization and Agro Economic Research Centre, Shimla. Show Less