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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Research on the Change of Water
Resource Utilization Efficiency in Anhui
Province Based on SBM-Malmquist
1
Anhui Provincial Transportation Survey and Design Institute Co., Ltd., Hefei 230011, P. R. China
Submission date: 2024-01-25
Final revision date: 2024-04-12
Acceptance date: 2024-04-26
Online publication date: 2024-09-04
Publication date: 2025-01-28
Corresponding author
Yiran Yin
Anhui Provincial Transportation Survey and Design Institute Co., Ltd., Hefei 230011, P. R. China
Anhui Provincial Transportation Survey and Design Institute Co., Ltd., Hefei 230011, P. R. China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(3):2473-2480
KEYWORDS
water resourcesutilization efficiencytotal factor productivitySBM (Slacks-Based Measure) MalmquistRegional Distribution Characteristics
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
The improvement of water resource utilization efficiency is helpful to the green transformation of
industry and the construction of a water-saving society. Based on the SBM method, this paper estimated
the green total factor productivity of water resources in Anhui Province from 2010 to 2018 and used
the Malmquist index decomposition model to study the regional distribution characteristics of green
total factor productivity of water resources and the dynamic change of the decomposition index.
The results show that the overall water resource use efficiency in Anhui province is relatively high, with
regional characteristics of “Central Anhui > Southern Anhui ≈ Northern Anhui”. The water resources
use efficiency in Central Anhui Province fluctuates greatly in the early stages, but tends to be stable
in recent years. The difference in water resource use efficiency in Anhui Province in different regions is
decreasing and tends to be consistent. The cities with low water resource use efficiency have an obvious
“late-development advantage”, and the convergence rate of each region presents the characteristics
of “Southern Anhui > Central Anhui > Northern Anhui”.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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