**Meet the editor**

Dr. Muhammad Salik Javaid has been working on research, development, planning, execution, management and policy formulation assignments with Corps of Engineers in Pakistan and abroad for over three decades. He has also worked as Chief Consulting Engineer (Water Supply and Drainage Services) with Engineer-in-Chief and Director General Planning for the Earthquake

Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority after the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, where he undertook his Masters and Doctoral studies in the fields of hydraulics and water resources. Presently, he is the Head of Department of Civil Engineering at Abasyn University Islamabad Campus, Pakistan. He has also conducted courses on 'water resources management' and 'river engineering' for civil engineering students at various campuses and universities.
