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Brazil is in water crisis — it needs a drought plan
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Nature 600, 218-220 (2021)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03625-w
A.G. writes in their personal capacity and not on behalf of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center or Science Applications International Corporation.
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