Assessing regional groundwater stress for nations using multiple data sources with the groundwater footprint

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Gleeson, Tom ^a   Wada, Yoshihide ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

agricultural water use; footprint; groundwater; India; uncertainty assessment; USA; water stress

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AQUIFERS; DATA PROCESSING; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER WELLS;

AGRICULTURAL WATER USE; FOOTPRINT; INDIA; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT; USA; WATER STRESS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; RECHARGE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE;

INDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891957594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044010     Document Type: Article

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