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Groundwater-resource governance: Are governments and stakeholders responding to the challenge?

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the efforts of their former colleagues in the World Bank-Groundwater Management Advisory Team (GW·MATE) on groundwater-governance issues, and the long-term support of Karin Kemper, Catherine Tovey and Julia Bucknall in this regard, together with more recent stimulation from Mohamed Ait-Kadi and Ania Grobicki (Global Water Partnership). They are also indebted to Cathy Reveles and Jacob Burke for constructive dialogue, and to the journal reviewers of this article (Leif Wolf, Stefanie Kralisch and Roland Barthel) for their valuable comments.

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  2. Paris, France

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Foster, S., Garduño, H. Groundwater-resource governance: Are governments and stakeholders responding to the challenge?. Hydrogeol J 21, 317–320 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-012-0904-9

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