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The Water Science Alliance initiative: Germany’s researchers join expertise to face global water problems

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Dr. Jan Friesen, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, for his comments to this article, and Ann Krueger for proofreading. The authors of this article would like to thank all co-authors of the Water Science Alliance White Paper (see: Teutsch and Krueger 2010).

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Krueger, E.H., Teutsch, G. International viewpoint and news. Environ Earth Sci 69, 729–735 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-013-2280-8

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