Carlos Roberto Fonseca Ortiz is a researcher at the Inter-American Institute of Water Sciences and Technology (IITCA). He is a civil engineer and holds a PhD degree in Water Sciences from the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, awarded in 2014. He is the leader of the chair group “Technodevelopment in Water Sciences”, the coordinator of the doctorate program, and the academic co-director of IITCA. His research publications and interests cover topics on ecological economics in water resources (with an approach of energy accounting), integrated water resource management, comprehensive rainwater harvesting systems, hydropower generation at the microscale, hydroinformatics development (including web apps and Geographic Information Systems). He has served as a member of associations like the Mexican network for water resources (REMERH) and CAP-Net.