ENVIS Technical Report: 76,  April 2014
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Integrated Wetlands Ecosystem: Sustainable Model to Mitigate Water Crisis in Bangalore

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    T.V. Ramachandra*         Durga Madhab Mahapatra         Sudarshan P. Bhat         Asulabha K S         Sincy Varghese         Bharath H. Aithal    
Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in

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