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Island water stress

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Small island states will experience decreasing freshwater resources under climate change this century.

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Figure 1: Schematic of small island hydrogeology, based loosely on the topography of Santiago Island (Cape Verde) as in ref. 2.

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  1. Toby Ault is in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 1113 Bradfield Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA,

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Ault, T. Island water stress. Nature Clim Change 6, 1062–1063 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3171

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