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  1. Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of land and sea, Rome, Italy

    Carlo Percopo

  2. Department Geological Survey of Italy, ISPRA, Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Rome, Italy

    Maurizio Guerra

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  1. Carlo Percopo
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  1. Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada Natural Resources Canada, Sidney, Ontario, Canada

    Peter Bobrowsky

  2. London, United Kingdom

    Brian Marker

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Percopo, C., Guerra, M. (2018). Groundwater. In: Bobrowsky, P., Marker, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12127-7_150-1

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