Groundwater quality and depletion in the Indo-Gangetic Basin mapped from in situ observations

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 762-766

  MacDonald, A M ^a   Bonsor, H C ^a   Ahmed, K M ^b   Burgess, W G ^c   Basharat, M ^d   Calow, R C ^e   Dixit, A ^f   Foster, S S D ^g   Gopal, K ^h   Lapworth, D J ⁱ   Lark, R M ⁱ   Moench, M ^j   Mukherjee, A ^k   Rao, M S ^h   Shamsudduha, M ^c   Smith, L ^l   Taylor, R G ^c   Tucker, J ^e   Van Steenbergen, F ^m   Yadav, S K ^f  

^a THE LYELL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Water And Power Development Authority Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^e OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f Manasi Marga   (Nepal)

^g Global Water Partnership   (United Kingdom)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (India)

ⁱ BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^j Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET)   (United States)

^k INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^l Filters for Families   (United States)

^m MetaMeta Research   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANAL; GROUNDWATER; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE DEPLETION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; WATER LEVEL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

BANGLADESH; GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA; NEPAL; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84989834003     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2791     Document Type: Article

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