Tom Pankratz is a Houston-based independent consultant and the editor of GWI’s weekly Water Desalination Report. He has served as an expert advisor on some of the world’s largest and most technically advanced desalination projects and has been appointed to serve on committees by the National Academy of Sciences, WHO, Middle East Desal Research Center and Australia’s Nation Center of Excellence in Desalination. A former vice president of CH2M Hill, and the director of corporate projects for USFilter/Veolia Water.