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Mountains are often recognized as the “world’s water towers”, due to their exceptional ability to generate water resources of good quality and, frequently, of considerable economic value (e.g. UNESCO IHP-VI Programme: http://www.unesco.org, Aureli 2002).
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Marques, J.E., Marques, J.M., Aguiar, C. (2010). A Groundwater System in a Mountain Environment (Serra da Estrela, Portugal). In: Evelpidou, N., Figueiredo, T., Mauro, F., Tecim, V., Vassilopoulos, A. (eds) Natural Heritage from East to West. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01577-9_20
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