Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering (recognizing as Academician in Canada)
D.WRE. – Diplomate, Water Resources Engineering, an award from American Academy of Water Resources Engineering and American Society of Civil Engineers (recognized as Academician in US)
University of Guelph Research Leadership Chair Professor, Water Supply Security – 2017-present (one of seven so-designated at University of Guelph)
Recipient, Gold Medal from the Institution of Engineers (India), The Nawab Zain Yar Jung Bahadur Memorial Gold Medal for 1986‑87
Recipient, Camille A. Dagenais Award for outstanding contributions to the development and practice of hydrotechnical engineering in Canada. An award from the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, 2009
Recipient, Research and Development Medal, Professional Engineers of Ontario and Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, 2009
Canada Research Chair, Tier 1, Water Security, 2003-2017
Fellow, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers
Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada
Fellow, India Association of Hydrologists
Fellow, Association of Global Groundwater Scientists
Recipient of K. Y. Lo Award from the Engineering Institute of Canada, significant contributions at the international level and demonstrating to the world, Canadian expertise in water security, 2015
Recipient of the Julian C. Smith Award by the Engineering Institute of Canada, for achievement in the development of Canada. 2018.
Recipient, Faculty of Applied Science, Dean’s Medal of Distinction, University of British Columbia, 2016
Recipient of ‘The 2016 Engineering Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award’, Faculty of Applied Science, University of British Columbia
Recipient of ‘Ton Duc Thang University Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award’, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, 2017
Web of Science h-index 73
Recipient, Award for ‘One Water Approach’ for Integrated Risk Management, from the Credit Valley Conservation Authority, Ontario, Canada. 2016
Two papers nominated as best papers in ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering
Recipient, Best Paper Award, "Chlorinated Ethene Plume Migration in Groundwater at Free-Phase Petroleum Sites", Keynote presentation at ModelCare -7th International Conference on Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modeling, Wuhan, China, September 20-23, 2009.
Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2001
Recipient, Japanese Promotion of Sciences Fellowship, 1987
Outstanding reviewer award from the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2015
Water’s Next Award 2016, Finalist for Academia/NGO Award
Recipient, Waste Management and Research Editor’s Choice Award for paper entitled “A Novel Risk Assessment Method for Landfill Slope Failure: Case Study Application for Bhalswa Dumpsite, India”, March 2017
