Dr. Maulin P. Shah is Chief Scientist and Head of the Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India. His work focuses on the impact of industrial pollution on the microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification, and genetically engineering high-impact microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. His research interests include biological wastewater treatment, environmental microbiology, biodegradation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of environmental pollutants from industrial wastewaters. B R M Vyas is an Environmental Microbiologist, having an experience of almost 30 years in teaching and research. He has published a good number of research articles in very high-impact journals, such as Applied & Environmental Microbiology (American Society of Microbiology), as well as others with Springer, Wiley, Elsevier. He has guided 16 PhD students in the field of applied and environmental microbiology