Growing up near Lake Michigan during the Great Chicago Flood of 1992 made a big impression on her, sparking her fascination with water resources.
Her work is deliberately interdisciplinary, as she focuses on not only the science of water but how that connects to food sources and trade, topics which are important in creating policy.
This data and analysis contribute important facts to water resource professionals and inform public policy on a global scale.
[4] In 2017, Konar co-authored an article called Impacts of crop insurance on water withdrawals for irrigation with Tatyana Deryugina, a professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The article concluded that the national crop insurance program is resulting in an increased use of water in agriculture, effectively overexploiting groundwater resources.