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Himalayan groundwater

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Rivers draining the Himalaya provide vital resources for almost half of the world's population. A combined model–data analysis suggests that the contribution of groundwater to the annual water budget in the central Himalaya may be substantial.

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Figure 1: Topographic map of the greater Himalaya region.

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  1. Bodo Bookhagen is in the Department of Geography, 1832 Ellison Hall, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-4060, USA,

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Bookhagen, B. Himalayan groundwater. Nature Geosci 5, 97–98 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1366

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