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Pressure on natural resources from growing populations, with growing demands for water supply, infrastructure and housing, has increased in the past decades and can be expected to continue to rise. Further stress on the environment due to pollution will increase the need for detailed geological knowledge, for geotechnical, hydrogeological, and environmental protection purposes.
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Torleif Dahlin (1996) studied this question.
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