About the Authors

Mark O. Cuthbert

m.cuthbert@bham.ac.uk

Affiliations Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Gail M. Ashley

Affiliation Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: MOC GMA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MOC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MOC GMA. Conceptual model derivation: GMA MOC. Groundwater modelling: MOC.