Published Water Resources Professional Projects

List of Published Projects (selected):

Hasenbeck, E.C., C.E. Scruggs, M. Morgan, J. Wang, A.J. Webster, and C.M. Gomez. 2025. Perspectives on Innovative Approaches in Agriculture to Managing Water Scarcity in the Middle Rio Grande Basin. Agriculture 15:793, https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15070793

Porter, A., R.P. Berrens, and J. Fleck, 2023. New Mexico's Greenbelt Law: Disincentivizing Water Conservation Through Agricultural Tax Breaks. Natural Resources Journal 63.

Ball, G., P. Regier, R. González-Pinzón, J. Reale, and D. Van Horn, 2021. Wildfires Increasingly Impact Western US Fluvial Networks. Nature Communications 12:2484.

Distler, L.N., C.E. Scruggs, M.P. Cruz, and K.N. Rumsey. 2021. Public engagement on water reuse beyond community surveys.  Journal of the American Water Works Association 113:56-68.

Cruz, M.P., C.E. Scruggs, and L.N. Distler. 2020. Mapping potable reuse survey data using spatial statistics to inform tailored education and outreach. AWWA Water Science, DOI: 10.1002/aws2.1197

Distler, L.N. and C.E. Scruggs, 2020a. Survey Data on Perceptions of Water Scarcity and Potable Reuse from Water Utility Customers in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Data in Brief 29:105289.

Distler, L.N. and C.E. Scruggs, 2020b. Arid Inland Community Survey on Water Knowledge, Trust, and Potable Reuse. I: Description of Findings. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 146:04020045.

Scruggs, C.E., C.B. Pratesi, and J.R. Fleck, 2020. Direct Potable Water Reuse in Five Arid Inland Communities: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Public Acceptance. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 63:1470–1500.

Summers, B.M., D.J. Van Horn, R. González-Pinzón, R.J. Bixby, M.R. Grace, L.R. Sherson, L.J. Crossey, M.C. Stone, R.R. Parmenter, T.S. Compton, and C.N. Dahm, 2020. Long-Term Data Reveal Highly-Variable Metabolism and Transitions in Trophic Status in a Montane Stream. Freshwater Science 39:241–255.

Rahman, A., E. El Hayek, J.M. Blake, R.J. Bixby, A.-M. Ali, M. Spilde, A.A. Otieno, K. Miltenberger, C. Ridgeway, K. Artyushkova, V. Atudorei, and J.M. Cerrato, 2018. Metal Reactivity in Laboratory Burned Wood from a Watershed Affected by Wildfires. Environmental Science & Technology 52:8115–8123.

Herman, J.G., C.E. Scruggs, and B.M. Thomson, 2017. The Costs of Direct and Indirect Potable Water Reuse in a Medium-Sized Arid Inland Community. Journal of Water Process Engineering 19:239–247.