The impacts of climate change and rapid development on weathered crystalline rock aquifer systems in the humid tropics of sub- Saharan Africa: Evidence from south- western Uganda

Climate Change Effects on Groundwater Resources: A Global Synthesis of Findings and Recommendations

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 17-32

  Taylor, Richard ^a   Tindimugaya, Callist ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Ministry of Water and Environment   (Uganda)

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