Water resources sustainability in a globalizing world: who uses the water?
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Megan Konar,* Tom P. Evans, Morgan Levy, Christopher A. Scott, Tara J. Troy, Charles J. Vörösmarty and Murugesu Sivapalan 1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA 2 Department of Geography, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA 3 Energy and Resources Group, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA 4 School of Geography & Development and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85719, USA 5 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA 6 CUNY Environmental Cross Roads Initiative, The City College of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA 7 Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA
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تاریخ انتشار 2016