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Research article
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26 Feb 2015
Research article |
| 26 Feb 2015
Groundwater as an emergency source for drought mitigation in the Crocodile River catchment, South Africa
F. E. F. Mussá
UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, P.O. Box 3015, 2601 DA Delft, the Netherlands
Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Engineering, Av. de Moçambique km 1.5, C. Postal 257, Maputo, Mozambique
Y. Zhou
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, P.O. Box 3015, 2601 DA Delft, the Netherlands
S. Maskey
UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, P.O. Box 3015, 2601 DA Delft, the Netherlands
I. Masih
UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, P.O. Box 3015, 2601 DA Delft, the Netherlands
S. Uhlenbrook
UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, P.O. Box 3015, 2601 DA Delft, the Netherlands
Delft University of Technology, Section of Water Resources, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, the Netherlands
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