Ronny Berndtsson is a professor in water resources engineering at Lund University, Sweden, and currently works as deputy director for a national strategic research area at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies. His expertise is surface-groundwater systems, water, nutrient, and pollution transport in agricultural systems, and effects of climate change. Presently he is coordinating two major European Union projects: the Horizon 2023 FarmWise project (Future Agricultural Resource Management and Water Innovations for a Sustainable Europe) and the SmartWater4Future (Coupled Urban-Rural Water Infrastructure Management under Hydroclimatic Extremes with Decision Support System). He has published extensively on water resources and sustainable development including climate change and safe access to water.