Journal article
Measuring water use performance in the cities along China's South-North Water Transfer Project
Z Miao, J Sheng, M Webber, T Baležentis, Y Geng, W Zhou
Applied Geography | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2018
Abstract
Due to the construction and operation of China's South-North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP), it is necessary to conduct broader research on the underlying trends and factors of the water-use performance in the SNWTP's cities from the perspective of “resource-economy-environment” system. This paper attempts to identify the optimal paths and measures for improving the water-use performance as measured by the Luenberger productivity indicator and its decomposition. The results show that sewage discharge, free-of-charge water use and leakage are the crucial variables that constitute major contributions to the overall inefficiency value associated with urban water use in the SNWTP. The static eff..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful for the financial support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 71774088, 71303123, 71403120, 71690241), the Training Program of the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91546117), the Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province (2017-JNHB-058), the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. BK20151351), the Jiangsu Provincial Fifth "333 Engineering" Research Project (No. BRA2017176), the Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province (No. 2015ZDIXM039). This paper is also funded by the Qing Lan Project. The authors are also grateful to the Australian Research Council for funding in support of this research (DP170104138).