Prof. Dr. Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UTS, is one of a handful of Australian academics whose work has been recognized by the International Water Association (IWA) as an IWA Distinguished Fellow (2021). He is a core member of UTS’s Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater Treatment and has worked on water industry issues in developing and developed countries since 1981. He was the inaugural Director of the Centre for Technologies in Water and Wastewater at UTS from 2011 to 2018. He has participated in IWA world and development congresses and has served as a scientific committee member in membrane, water reuse, rainwater, and solid–liquid separation specialist group meetings. His research interests include sustainable water management, resource recovery, membrane technologies, and hybrid systems for water reuse and desalination. He has also investigated high-rate solid–liquid separation technologies for package water treatment systems, advanced oxidation, photocatalysis, biofiltration for persistent organic removal, optimizing treatment systems and their operation, and appropriate water treatment in developing countries. He taught undergraduate and postgraduate subjects on water and wastewater treatment and management, cleaner production or waste minimization, and ecology and sustainability. He has published more than 510 journal papers and has an H index of 72.