| Author: | Dupont, D. P. Renzetti, S. |
| Title: | The role of water in manufacturing |
| Journal: | Environmental and Resource Economics
2001 : APR, VOL. 18:4, p. 411-432 |
| Index terms: | Water supply industry Manufacturing Water resources |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A KLEM model of the sector's technology is extended to include two facets of water use: intake and recirculation. Three annual cross-sectional surveys on plant-level water use are pooled and combined with census data to estimate this extended model for the Canadian manufacturing sector 1981-1991. Water intake is found to be a substitute for water recirculatrion, energy, labour and capital. The relationship between water intake and recirculation is stronger when water intake process-related rather than related to cooling and steam production. |
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