Pradeep Nagarajan is the integrated water management technical director at GHD, a global professional services company. Nagarajan is a civil engineer with 20 years of experience as a professional engineer and technical director in the field of water resources, stormwater, water and wastewater master planning, modeling and design projects. Kali Persall, editor of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure (i3), recently interviewed Nagarajan about resilient infrastructure and effective water management. The following is an excerpt of that conversation.

Recent extreme weather events have underscored the critical need to make infrastructure more resilient. Just how prepared are we for situations such as these?

Extreme events