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Science 1 February 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5863, pp. 573 - 574
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151915
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management?

P. C. D. Milly,1* Julio Betancourt,2 Malin Falkenmark,3 Robert M. Hirsch,4 Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz,5 Dennis P. Lettenmaier,6 Ronald J. Stouffer7

Climate change undermines a basic assumption that historically has facilitated management of water supplies, demands, and risks.

1U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), c/o National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.

2USGS, Tucson, AZ 85745, USA.

3Stockholm International Water Institute, SE 11151 Stockholm, Sweden.

4USGS, Reston, VA 20192, USA.

5Research Centre for Agriculture and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland, and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.

6University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

7NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: cmilly{at}usgs.gov.

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