Rainwater harvesting as an adaptation to climate change

Current Science

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 46-59

  Pandey, Deep Narayan ^a,b   Gupta, Anil K ^c   Anderson, David M ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT   (India)

^b Forest Department   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 4444272394     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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