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WATER. Fresh water goes global
C J Vörösmarty1, A Y Hoekstra2, S E Bunn3
1Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York, USA. Charles.Vorosmarty@asrc.cuny.edu.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 1, 2015
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