Sharon Megdal
Sharon Megdal

Director
Water Resources Research Center
Professor and Specialist,
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics



Research Areas:
  • State and regional water policy and management
Selected Organizations and Committees:
  • Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
  • Arizona Water Quality Appeals Board
  • Arizona Board of Medical Examiners
  • Governor's Water Management Commission
  • Governor's Transportation Vision 21 Task Force
Education:
  • Ph.D,. Economics, Princeton University
  • M.A., Economics, Princeton University
  • A.B., Douglass College of Rutgers University
Recent Publications:
  • “Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences: The Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District,” with Christopher Avery, Carla Consoli and Robert Glennon, Arizona Law Review, forthcoming, 2007.
  • “Visit Shows Israel, AZ Face Similar Issues,” Arizona Water Resource, September-October 2006.
  • “Restoration Projects Consider Needs of the Environment,” Essay in Arizona Policy Choices, Morrison Institute, Arizona State University, Forthcoming.
  • “Time for Annual State-of-the-WRRC Report,” Arizona Water Resource, July-August 2006.
  • “Arizona’s Recharge and Recovery Policies and Programs,” in Bonnie G. Colby and Katharine L. Jacobs, ed. Arizona Water Policy:  Management Innovations in an Urbanizing, Arid Region, RFF Press, forthcoming.
  • “Arizona Officials Grapple with Growth – Water Supply Dilemma,” Arizona Water Resource, May-June 2006.
  • “Water and Growth,” Co-authored with Susanna Eden, Chapter 4, Arizona’s Rapid Growth and Development: Natural Resources and Infrastructure, Background Report prepared for the 88th Arizona Town Hall, April 2006.
  • “Water Budget Can Be Monstrously Complicated,” Arizona Water Resource, March-April 2006.
  • “An Introduction to the Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District,” co-authored with Justin Ferris and Susanna Eden, PDF, posted January 2006.
  • “US Army Corps of Engineers Plays a Lead Role in Achieving Sustainable Riparian Systems in the Southwest:  the Arizona Example” (co-authored with Susanna Eden), Environmental Newsletter, Central Regional Environmental Office, US Army Environmental Center, Issue 4, 2005.  Issued January 2006.
  • “Revised AWS Rules, Key to Efforts to Reduce Groundwater Overdraft,” Arizona Water Resource, January-February 2006.

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Sharon Megal's CV (Updated 28 February 2007)


Contact Sharon Megdal:
520-792-9591 ext.21

smegdal@cals.arizona.edu


 
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