Adapting water supply systems in a changing climate

Water Supply Systems, Distribution and Environmental Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 47-76

  Hall, Julia ^a   Murphy, Conor ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

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