The origin and evolution of safe-yield policies in the Kansas groundwater management districts

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-110

  Sophocleous, Marios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseflow; Flow duration curve; Groundwater evapotranspiration; Groundwater management districts; High plains aquifer Ogallala aquifer, kansas; Safe yield; Stream aquifer interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003236381     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010139325667     Document Type: Article

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