Publications

Publications & Presentations

Peer-reviewed articles, working manuscripts, and presentations across infrastructure service delivery, water systems, spatial analytics, environmental risk, and resilience.

Manuscripts in Preparation and Review

Improving infrastructure service delivery under resource constraints: a household-level policy simulation framework for urban water systems
Mohanavelu, A., Osman, K.K. · Water Resources Research · Submission planned · August 2026
Develops a household-level policy simulation framework to evaluate how alternative infrastructure service regimes and investment strategies affect service quality, equity, and delivery outcomes.
[In preparation]
Experienced service conditions shape household priorities within piped-water systems
Mohanavelu, A., Richards, D., Osman, K.K. · Nature Water · Submission planned · August 2026
Examines how lived service conditions within piped-water systems shape what households prioritize in water service improvements.
[In preparation]
Structural water service quality standardization under provision regime heterogeneity
Mohanavelu, A., Osman, K.K. · Water Resources Research · Submission underway · 2026
Uses structural standardization and household-level modeling to compare water service quality across different provision regimes while accounting for household and contextual heterogeneity.
[Submission underway]
Preference-aware measurement and modeling of end-user water service quality in heterogeneous water provision systems
Mohanavelu, A., Osman, K.K. · Nature Communications · Submission underway · 2026
Develops and validates the Water Service Quality Score (WSQS), a multidimensional survey-based metric spanning affordability, access, reliability, efficiency, acceptability, quality, quantity, and customer service across heterogeneous provision systems.
[Submission underway]
Barriers and pathways in CBO–academic environmental research collaborations: perspectives from community-based practitioners
Mohanavelu, A., Medina, C., Osman, K.K. · Environmental Development · 2026
Examines barriers, institutional constraints, and partnership pathways shaping collaboration between community-based organizations and academic researchers in environmental research.
[Under review]

Published Journal Articles

Ripples of injustice: unraveling water equity challenges on a global scale
Mohanavelu, A., Osman, K.K. · Environmental Research Letters · 2024
Reviews global water equity definitions, justice frameworks, and infrastructure challenges, and proposes a more operational definition of water equity for future measurement and policy work.
[DOI]
Quantitatively incorporating social equity in water network maintenance and rehabilitation decision-making
Mohanavelu, A., Osman, K.K., Kothari, C., France-Mensah, J. · Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management · 2024Editor’s Choice
Develops a quantitative framework for incorporating social equity objectives into water infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation planning under budget and network performance constraints.
[DOI]
Streambed pollution: a comprehensive review of its sources, eco-hydro-geo-chemical impacts, assessment, and mitigation strategies
Mohanavelu, A., Shrivastava, S., Naganna, S.R. · Chemosphere · 2022
Synthesizes physical, chemical, and biological sources of streambed pollution and reviews ecological, hydrological, geomorphological, biochemical, assessment, and mitigation dimensions.
[DOI]
Modeling multi-objective Pareto-optimal reservoir operation policies using state-of-the-art modeling techniques
Mohanavelu, A., Soundharajan, B., Kisi, O. · Water Resources Management · 2022
Develops and evaluates multi-objective modeling approaches for reservoir operation policy design and optimization.
[DOI]
Monthly streamflow prediction by metaheuristic regression approaches considering satellite precipitation data
Mehraein, M., Mohanavelu, A., Naganna, S.R., Kulls, C., Kisi, O. · Water · 2022
Evaluates machine-learning and metaheuristic regression approaches for monthly streamflow prediction using satellite precipitation data.
[DOI]
Irrigation induced salinity and sodicity hazards on soil and groundwater: an overview of its causes, impacts and mitigation strategies
Mohanavelu, A., Naganna, S.R., Al-Ansari, N. · Agriculture · 2021Editor’s Choice
Reviews the causes, impacts, and mitigation strategies associated with irrigation-induced salinity and sodicity hazards in soil and groundwater systems.
[DOI]
Novel ensemble forecasting of streamflow using locally weighted learning algorithm
Adnan, R.M., Jaafari, A., Mohanavelu, A., Kisi, O., Elbeltagi, A. · Sustainability · 2021
Applies ensemble learning methods for streamflow forecasting using locally weighted learning approaches.
[DOI]
Trends and non-stationarity in groundwater level changes in rapidly developing Indian cities
Mohanavelu, A., Kasiviswanathan, K.S., Mohanasundharam, S., Idhayachandhiran, I., Pingale, S.M., Soundharajan, B., He, J., Moheideen, M.M. · Water · 2020Feature Paper
Analyzes groundwater-level trends and non-stationarity in rapidly developing Indian cities, with attention to urban growth, climate variability, and groundwater stress.
[DOI]

Talks and Presentations

Engineering people-centered infrastructure systems: advancing infrastructure planning, risk assessment, and public decision-making
Mohanavelu, A. · Job talk poster · TBE Workshop · Purdue School of Engineering · Scheduled, 29 July 2026
Evaluating how micro-climate and water quality parameters influence the severity of kidney stone disease: a case study from Sri Lanka
Mohanavelu, A., Osman, K.K., Ganesan, C., Pao, A. · Oral · American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting · New Orleans · 19 December 2025
Development of sensor-based device for monitoring water-energy behaviors
Sanchez Hernandez, A., Mohanavelu, A., Osman, K.K. · Oral & Poster · Stanford SURGE and SESUR Symposium · Stanford University · 1 August 2025
Assessing collaboration challenges between community-based organizations and academics in environmental research
Mohanavelu, A., Osman, K.K. · Poster · Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Conference · Durham · 9 May 2025
Quantitatively incorporating social equity in water network maintenance and rehabilitation decision-making
Osman, K.K., Mohanavelu, A., Kothari, C., France-Mensah, J. · Oral · American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting · Washington, D.C. · 11 December 2024
Developing a consistent water equity metric for developing countries
Mohanavelu, A., Osman, K.K. · Poster · King Center on Global Development Research Symposium · Stanford University · 26 April 2024
Building resilience: exploring water hazard mitigation infrastructure in developing countries
Mohanavelu, A., Osman, K.K. · Poster · American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting · San Francisco · 9 December 2023
Disproportionate effects of flooding in global basins: delineating common characteristics, trends, and impacts
Mohanavelu, A., Osman, K.K. · Oral & Paper · Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Conference · Moncton · 25 May 2023
[DOI]
Increased frequency of urban flooding in coastal Indian cities caused by variation in monsoon rainfall: influencing factors, challenges, and solutions
Mohanavelu, A., Soundharajan, B. · Oral · European Geosciences Union General Assembly · Vienna · 24 May 2022
Including anthropogenic and socio-economic variables improves the performance of groundwater time-series predictions
Mohanavelu, A. · Poster · American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting · New Orleans · 17 December 2021
Forecasting of Soil Moisture: An ANN Model Integrated with Empirical Mode Decomposition
Thakur, C., Mohanavelu, A., Vijayalakshmanan, S., Kasiviswanathan, K.S., Soundharajan, B., Sen, S., and Tummuru, N.R. · Oral & Paper · Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences · Tunisia (Online) · 2020
[DOI]
A comprehensive evaluation of wavelet functions to analyze groundwater storage trends
Kasiviswanathan, K.S., Mohanavelu, A., Soundharajan, B., Teutschbein, C. · Oral · European Geosciences Union General Assembly · Vienna · 7 May 2020
Groundwater resilience of major Indian cities
Soundharajan, B., Mohanavelu, A., Kasiviswanathan, K.S. · Oral · Water Security and Climate Change Conference · San Luis Potosí · 29 October 2019
Quantification of uncertainties in weather forecasting for improved agro-meteorological services
Mohanavelu, A., Soundharajan, B., Kasiviswanathan, K.S. · Oral · Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Annual Meeting · Singapore · 31 July 2019

Manuscripts in Preparation and Review

Improving infrastructure service delivery under resource constraints: a household-level policy simulation framework for urban water systems

Experienced service conditions shape household priorities within piped-water systems

Structural water service quality standardization under provision regime heterogeneity

Preference-aware measurement and modeling of end-user water service quality in heterogeneous water provision systems

Barriers and pathways in CBO–academic environmental research collaborations: perspectives from community-based practitioners

Published Journal Articles

Ripples of injustice: unraveling water equity challenges on a global scale

Quantitatively incorporating social equity in water network maintenance and rehabilitation decision-making

Streambed pollution: a comprehensive review of its sources, eco-hydro-geo-chemical impacts, assessment, and mitigation strategies

Modeling multi-objective Pareto-optimal reservoir operation policies using state-of-the-art modeling techniques

Monthly streamflow prediction by metaheuristic regression approaches considering satellite precipitation data

Irrigation induced salinity and sodicity hazards on soil and groundwater: an overview of its causes, impacts and mitigation strategies

Novel ensemble forecasting of streamflow using locally weighted learning algorithm

Trends and non-stationarity in groundwater level changes in rapidly developing Indian cities

Talks and Presentations

Engineering people-centered infrastructure systems: advancing infrastructure planning, risk assessment, and public decision-making

Evaluating how micro-climate and water quality parameters influence the severity of kidney stone disease: a case study from Sri Lanka

Development of sensor-based device for monitoring water-energy behaviors

Assessing collaboration challenges between community-based organizations and academics in environmental research

Quantitatively incorporating social equity in water network maintenance and rehabilitation decision-making

Developing a consistent water equity metric for developing countries

Building resilience: exploring water hazard mitigation infrastructure in developing countries

Disproportionate effects of flooding in global basins: delineating common characteristics, trends, and impacts

Increased frequency of urban flooding in coastal Indian cities caused by variation in monsoon rainfall: influencing factors, challenges, and solutions

Including anthropogenic and socio-economic variables improves the performance of groundwater time-series predictions

Forecasting of Soil Moisture: An ANN Model Integrated with Empirical Mode Decomposition

A comprehensive evaluation of wavelet functions to analyze groundwater storage trends

Groundwater resilience of major Indian cities

Quantification of uncertainties in weather forecasting for improved agro-meteorological services