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Groundwater sustainability strategies

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Aquifers are the primary source of drinking water for up to two billion people. To avoid overexploitation, lengthy renewal periods of some aquifers must be taken into account.

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Figure 1: Satellite image of crops irrigated by groundwater from the High Plains aquifer in Kansas, USA.

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  1. Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, 6339 Stores Road, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, British Columbia, Canada

    Tom Gleeson

  2. School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada

    Jonathan VanderSteen

  3. Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, 1930 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, 66047, Kansas, USA

    Marios A. Sophocleous

  4. Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, 335 Takashima-cho, Kamigyo-ku, 602-0878, Kyoto, Japan

    Makoto Taniguchi

  5. U.S. Geological Survey, 411 National Center, Reston, 20192, Virginia, USA

    William M. Alley

  6. Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 7239 TASC I Building, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, V5A 1S6, British Columbia, Canada

    Diana M. Allen

  7. Water Engineering Department, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Westvest 7, P.O. Box 3015 2601 DA, Delft, The Netherlands

    Yangxiao Zhou

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