Land use controls Kenyan riverine nitrate discharge into Lake Victoria – evidence from Nyando, Nzoia and Sondu Miriu river catchmentsFootnote^*

* Originally presented at the IAEA Symposium on Isotope Hydrology 2019, Vienna, Austria, 20–24 May 2019.

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