UniSA's water law specialist and Professor of Business Law, Dr Jennifer McKay, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholarship and will be heading to the US in August to complete a twelve month study into changing current water allocation and use laws in the United States and Australia to incorporate sustainability goals. As Director of UniSA's Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws, Prof McKay has been instrumental in developing a comparative framework for analysing legal institutional aspects of natural resources management in Australia and India. She is also a leading researcher at the Cooperative Research Centres for Water Quality and Treatment and Irrigation Futures and holds a ministerial appointment on the Natural Resources Management Council. Professor McKay says there is enormous value in comparing water laws, their interpretation and administration in two countries which both operate as federations and have similarly mature water economies. Prof McKay is one of 24 Australians to be awarded a Fulbright Scholarship this year. The scholarships are funded by the Australian and US Governments and corporate partners, and administered by the Australian-American Fulbright Commission in Canberra.
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