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Ground water in California: Economic and social causes and effects of overdraft on state's water resources subjects of current studies
Authors
S. V. Ciriacy-WantrupPatricia McBride Bartz
Authors Affiliations
S. V. Ciriacy-Wantrup is Professor of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economist in the Experiment Station, and Agricultural Economist on the Giannini Foundation, Berkeley; Patricia McBride Bartz was Research Assistant on the Giannini Foundation at the time this article was written.Publication Information
Hilgardia 4(1):9-14. DOI:10.3733/ca.v004n01p9. January 1950.
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Abstract
About 30% of the irrigated lands of California receive their entire water supply from ground water and about three quarters of the cities, towns, water, and sewage districts in the state draw all or part of their requirements from the same source.
Ciriacy-Wantrup S, Bartz P. 1950. Ground water in California: Economic and social causes and effects of overdraft on state's water resources subjects of current studies. Hilgardia 4(1):9-14. DOI:10.3733/ca.v004n01p9
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