Mario A. Garcia is a Civil Engineer with a Master's degree in Hydrogeology and Water Resources Management from the University of Costa Rica. He is an international consultant with over 20 years of experience across Latin America in hydrology, hydrogeology, hydraulics, civil engineering, and geographic information systems applied to water resource management. He has led the development of hydrological, hydrogeological, and hydraulic models to assess current and future water availability, supporting decision-making in pre-feasibility, feasibility, and implementation stages for governmental agencies. Mr. Garcia has completed over 100 modeling projects for consulting firms, governmental institutions, and construction companies in Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, and Brazil. He has managed multidisciplinary teams through all phases of project development and has served as a speaker at environmental conferences and events hosted by academic institutions, professionals, and public agencies in Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica. He has also taught courses on water systems modeling and analysis through the Costa Rican Water Resources Association (ACREH).

Alexandra Suhogusoff is a researcher professor at the Institute of Geosciences of the University of São Paulo (USP), where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Hydrogeochemistry, General Geology, and Geostatistics. She holds a PhD in Hydrogeology from USP, which included a research internship at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), focusing on the numerical modeling of the Guarani Aquifer System. Her areas of expertise include groundwater quality, hydrochemical processes, isotope hydrology, and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport. She also researches groundwater contamination in urban and agricultural environments and coordinates interdisciplinary projects involving both public and private institutions. Prof. Suhogusoff also supervises students at various academic levels and is engaged in outreach and science education initiatives related to groundwater sustainability.

Luiz Carlos Ferrari has a Bachelor of Science in Physics, a Master of Science in Geophysics, and a Doctorate in Hydrogeology from the University of São Paulo. With over three decades of expertise in computational numerical modeling—including 25 years focused on groundwater flow and contaminant transport—he has made significant contributions to managing the quantity and quality of groundwater resources.