Rate My Professor Meenakshi Arora

Arora's research focuses on water resource management, integrated urban water management, urban water cycle modelling, water quality in surface water, groundwater, and stormwater, contaminant transport modelling, groundwater remediation, the water-energy nexus, surface water-groundwater interactions, and stream health. She teaches Water and Wastewater Management, Engineering Risk Analysis, and Civil Hydraulics. Notable awards include the India Australia Business and Community Alliance Australia India Impact Award (Individual) in 2022, the 2017 Award for Excellence in Internationalisation of Research, Women in Water Leadership Award, and Victoria Fellowship for innovative research in physical sciences. Key publications comprise 'Key sustainability challenges for the global phosphorus resource, their implications for global food security, and options for mitigation' (Chowdhury et al., 2017, Journal of Cleaner Production), 'Water–energy–greenhouse gas nexus of urban water systems: Review of concepts, state-of-art and methods' (Nair et al., 2014, Resources, Conservation and Recycling), 'A review of recent substance flow analyses of phosphorus to identify priority management areas at different geographical scales' (Chowdhury et al., 2014, Resources, Conservation and Recycling), 'Impacts of stormwater infiltration on downslope soil moisture and tree water use' (2021, Environmental Research Letters), and 'The influence of stormwater infiltration on downslope groundwater chemistry' (2023). She has chaired international conferences including Practical Responses to Climate Change (2014) and Australia-India conferences (2017, 2019), serves on editorial boards and as a reviewer for journals, and contributes to committees such as the FEIT Promotions Committee, FEIT Engagement Committee, and NHMRC Fluoride Reference Group.