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Research Article
Virtual groundwater transfers from overexploited aquifers in the United States
Landon Marston, Megan Konar, Ximing Cai, and Tara J. Troy
PNAS July 14, 2015 112 (28) 8561-8566; first published June 29, 2015; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1500457112
Landon Marston
aDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801;
Megan Konar
aDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801;
Ximing Cai
aDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801;
Tara J. Troy
bDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Edited by Susan Hanson, Clark University, Worcester, MA, and approved May 26, 2015 (received for review January 8, 2015)

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- Published in issue July 14, 2015.
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- aDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801;
- bDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Edited by Susan Hanson, Clark University, Worcester, MA, and approved May 26, 2015 (received for review January 8, 2015)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: mkonar{at}illinois.edu.
Author contributions: L.M., M.K., X.C., and T.J.T. designed research; L.M. and M.K. performed research; L.M. analyzed data; and L.M., M.K., X.C., and T.J.T. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1500457112/-/DCSupplemental.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jul 2015, 112 (28) 8561-8566; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500457112
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