Dr. Mrittika Basu is an Assistant Professor in the Laboratory of Sustainable Rural Development, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies (GSGES), Kyoto University, Japan. Her research interests mainly include, but not limited to, water resource management, rural water security, human-nature connections, pro-environmental behavior, ecosystem services assessment and human well-being. She received her PhD from Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. She then joined United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study on Sustainability (UNU IAS), Tokyo, as a UNU-JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow. Currently, she is involved in multiple research projects on multi-municipal water governance, water conservation behavior, and water security.