About the Authors

Sayanti Kar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, Department of Environmental Science, Asutosh College, Kolkata, India

Indrajit Ghosh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Asutosh College, Kolkata, India

Pampiya Chowdhury

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Geology, Asutosh College, Kolkata, India

Amitava Ghosh

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Asutosh College, Kolkata, India

Pritam Aitch

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Gupinath Bhandari

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Abhishek RoyChowdhury

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

aroychowdhury@navajotech.edu

Affiliation Environmental Science and Natural Resources, School of Science, Navajo Technical University, Crown Point, NM, United States of America

Competing Interests

AR is an Academic Editor for PLOS Water. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests towards this manuscript.