Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-1093-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-1093-2015
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, Y. Zhou, S. Maskey, I. Masih, and S. Uhlenbrook

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