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Water Security: Why We Need Global Solutions

a Hydro-environmental Research Centre, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK
b Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China

Received: 2021-08-28 Revised: 2021-09-28 Accepted: 2021-10-10 Available online: 2021-11-09

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