Nandita Basu is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology at the University of Waterloo.
Basu is recognized for her work on discovering the impact of nutrient legacies and proposed solutions to improving water quality of lakes and coastal zones.
[3] Basu is known for her research on how through altered land use and changing climate humans impact water availability and quality, specifically through agricultural practices such as the use of fertilizers and intensive livestock production.
Basu's expertise lies specifically in: contaminant fate and transport, watershed biogeochemistry, ecosystem restoration, human impacts on the environment, and water resources sustainability.
For a more complete list of publications, see Basu's Google Scholar profile[10] "Geographically isolated wetlands are important biogeochemical reactors to the landscape", an article Basu co-authored, gains relevance in a time in which the Trump administration is rolling back clean water protections set in place during the Obama-era.