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Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability

Wolfgang Kinzelbach, Haijing Wang, Yu Li, Lu Wang, Ning Li

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157 Pages
English
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Publisher
Year
2022
ISBN-13
9789811658433
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Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought re... (see more details)

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