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Water planners call for fundamental shift to deal with changing climate
01-31-2008 · EurekAlert!The past is no longer a reliable base on which to plan the future of water management. So says a new perspectives piece written by a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists, to be published Feb. 1 in Science magazine, that calls for fundamental changes to the science behind water planning and policy.
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