Articles | Volume 14, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-14-1863-2010
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-14-1863-2010
Research article
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12 Oct 2010
Research article |  | 12 Oct 2010

Groundwater use for irrigation – a global inventory

S. Siebert, J. Burke, J. M. Faures, K. Frenken, J. Hoogeveen, P. Döll, and F. T. Portmann

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