Water Management International Pte Ltd
International Advisors for Water Policy
Vision and Mission
Vision
Adequate quantity and quality of water available for domestic, commercial and industrial users in Asian urban areas.
Mission
Based on the insights gained from ground level work with the water utilities and users, make a positive contribution to evidence-based urban water public policy in Asia.
Urban Water Utilities using Four-Domain
Framework of Analysis
Between Two Urban Water Utilities
Multi-lateral Donor Agencies Engaged
in Urban Water Sector
Development Programs Related to the Urban
Water Sector
In the Urban Water Sector
Meet Our Team
Prof. Asit K Biswas
Executive Director
Prof. Asit K. Biswas is internationally recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on water, environment, and development. His distinguished career spans academia, senior public service in Canada, and advisory roles to Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Ministers in 19 countries; six Heads of UN agencies; two OECD Secretaries-General; leaders of bilateral aid agencies; and senior executives of major multinational corporations.
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He served on the World Commission on Water and co-founded the International Water Resources Association and the World Water Council. He has been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council, International Advisory Board of Pictet Asset Management, the Advisory Board of IIT Kharagpur, and Strategic Advisor to Singapore International Water Week. His many honours include the Stockholm Water Prize, Crystal Drop and Millennium Prizes, the Walter Huber Prize, Canada’s “Person of the Year” award, and Spain’s Aragon Environment Prize. He has received seven honorary doctorates, authored 88 books and over 500 papers translated into 41 languages, founded the International Journal of Water Resources Development, and served as its Editor-in-Chief for 29 years. He is a member of the Russian Engineering Academy and the European Academy of Sciences.
His Excellency
Mr. Ek Sonn Chan
Advisor
Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister Royal Government of Cambodia. H.E Mr. Ek Sonn Chan joined Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) as a Director in 1993 and he was General Director of PPWSA till 2012. He successfully turned around the PPWSA from a loss-making water utility with NRW of more than 70% to a profitable water utility with NRW of less than 10%. H.E Mr Ek Sonn Chan was awarded the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2006 for Government Service.
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In 2010 he was awarded the Stockholm Industry Water Award. After retirement from PPWSA in July 2012, H.E Mr Ek Sonn Chan worked as Under Secretary of State and then as Secretary of State (from 2013) in Ministry of Industry Mines and Energy, Royal Government of Cambodia. In 2019, he was promoted to Minister Delegate to Prime Minister, Royal Government of Cambodia. H.E Mr. Ek Sonn Chan brings exemplary leadership skills and his deep experience in water utilities to the advisory board of Water Management International Pte Ltd.
Pawan K Sachdeva
Non-Executive Director
Pawan, after spending twenty years in public markets, transitioned from public market investments to the urban water sector. Since his transition to the urban water sector, Pawan has researched or consulted urban water sectors in India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore and Mongolia. He has developed a framework of analysis called Four-Domain Framework of Analysis of Urban Water Utilities, through which he does descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive business analysis of Urban Water Utilities.
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Pawan is also Adjunct Professor to Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India). Pawan is B. Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur, India), MBA from Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore, India) and MPA from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (NUS, Singapore).
Dr. Cecilia Tortajada
CEO
Dr. Cecilia Tortajada has more than 25 years of experience in research, teaching, and consultancy, with a focus on impacts of global changes on water, food, and environmental security. She has acted as advisor for several international and national organizations and development agencies, governments and development banks such as UNDP, UNEP, FAO, International Development Research Center (IDRC) – Canada, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Inter-American Development Bank, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC),
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Inter-American Institute for Cooperation of Agriculture (IICA), InWEnt Capacity Building International (now GIZ); as well as for national and state governments in Spain (Aragon), Germany (Berlin), Brazil, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Gujarat (India), Mexico, Sri Lanka and Turkey. Competencies also extend to collaborations with the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations; Sasakawa Peace Foundation and Nippon Foundation, Japan; Majlis El-Hassan Foundation, Jordan; Singapore International Water Week; Stockholm International Water Institute, Stockholm; and multinational corporations like Nestlé. She was awarded with an Honorary Doctorate of Science in Technology by Aalto University, Finland. She is also a recipient of the Ven Te Chow Memorial Award and Lecture (2025), Crystal Drop Award (2016) and the 50th Anniversary Award (2021), International Water Resources Associa-on (IWRA).
Internship
Remote Internship on Water Use by Data Centres in India (June–August 2026)
Call for Applications
There will be a maximum of three interns. Expressions of interest should be sent to
Dr. Cecilia Tortajada, cecilia@watermanagementint.com
Water Management International Pte Limited invites applications for an eight-week internship for high school and university students to be conducted remotely between 15 June and 14 August 2026, under the supervision of Dr. Cecilia Tortajada.
The internship will focus on the analysis of water use by data centres in India. Interns will undertake a structured descriptive analysis of water use patterns in data centres, with emphasis on cooling technologies, operational practices, water efficiency measures, and climatic influence. A detailed framework will be provided during the first week of the internship.
Interns will be responsible for collecting and compiling secondary data from publicly available sources, including, but not limited to, legislation; sustainability and environmental reports published by data centre operators; and relevant academic literature, government reports, and industry benchmarks.
The descriptive analysis is to be completed by the end of the fourth week of the internship. Based on the findings, interns will conduct a diagnostic analysis to identify key challenges and opportunities for improving water sustainability in data centre operations in India. The final output of the internship will consist of two to three actionable recommendations aimed at enhancing water efficiency and long-term water sustainability in the data centre sector.
The internship is unpaid and will be conducted entirely online, with weekly meetings with Dr Cecilia Tortajada and her team. Interns will be required to submit a written report by the end of the seventh week, followed by a final presentation during the eighth week. A certificate of internship will be awarded upon successful completion of the programme.
Contact Us
Water Management International Pte Ltd
pawan@watermanagementint.com