Interactive Water Services: The WATERNOMICS Approach

Procedia Engineering 89 ( 2014 ) 1058 – 1065

1877-7058 © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

Peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of WDSA 2014 doi: 10.1016/j.proeng.2014.11.225

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