Robert George Maliva is a Principal Hydrogeologist at WSP USA. He received his B.A. from Binghamton University in 1982, his Master's degree from Indiana University Bloomington in 1984, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1988. He was a research associate at the University of Cambridge and the University of Miami, and he has been a consulting hydrogeologist since 1992. He is a senior author of five books on various aspects of applied hydrogeology. His area of specialization is alternative water supply and disposal systems, which include managed aquifer recharge (aquifer storage and recovery), brackish water resources development for desalination systems, alternative (subsurface) seawater intake systems, and deep injection well systems. His technical background includes hydrogeology, sedimentary geology/petrology, sedimentary (low-temperature geochemistry), and borehole geophysics.