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Better local water management is the way to keep pace with escalating demands, not pumping water across the country, warn Jon Barnett and colleagues.

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  1. Jon Barnett is professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, in the School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,

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  2. Sarah Rogers is a research fellow, in the School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,

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  3. Michael Webber, Brian Finlayson and Mark Wang are professors, in the School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,

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Barnett, J., Rogers, S., Webber, M. et al. Sustainability: Transfer project cannot meet China's water needs. Nature 527, 295–297 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/527295a

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