Dr. Sinha is a tenured Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. In addition, he is Director of the Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management (SWIM) Center. His research, teaching, and consulting are in the areas of water infrastructure management, sustainability, pattern recognition, sensor informatics, and resilience, especially water systems. He instigated a “90-minutes” PBS documentary titled “Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure,” that throws light on a long buried problem -- America’s aging water infrastructure systems. A follow-up PBS documentary on Climate Change and Water Crisis is currently underproduction. He has given many NPR interviews and featured as an aging urban infrastructure expert in a History Channel documentary titled “The Crumbling of America.” Recently, he launched two national database websites: WATERiD (www.waterid.org) National Knowledge Database and PIPEiD (www.pipeid.org) National Water Pipeline Modeling Platform. Dr. Sinha has completed and assisted in the completion of various National Science Foundation (NSF), EPA, Water Research Foundation, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of Energy, and other government and privately funded research and design projects related to water infrastructure systems. Dr. Sinha has extensive knowledge, experience, and water utility support on the subject matter from across the country and around the world.