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In China, water resources consumption intensity (WI) was obviously decreased during 1997–2008. Based on complete decomposition model, the paper makes a profound analysis on the variation and factors of WI from the point of industry. The results show that the decline of total WI was caused by both adjustment of industrial structure and increase of water utilization efficiency in various industries. Particularly, the decline of economic proportion of primary industry and the increase of water utilization efficiency of primary and secondary industry played an important role in the decline of WI. And WI has plenty of space to decline, so the water utilization efficiency should be continuously improved.
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Financial supports are acknowledged from Major Project of Chinese National Program s for Fundamental Research and Development (973 Program) (project number: 2010CB951104), National Social Science Foundation of China (project number: 10CGL069), Humanities and Social Science Fund from Ministry of Education (project number: 09YJC790125), China Post-doctoral Science Foundation (project number: 20100471372) and humanities and social science fund from Changzhou University (project number: ZMF08020033).
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Tong, J., Ma, J., Liu, G. (2011). Analysis on Variation and Factors of Water Resources Consumption Intensity in China. In: Wu, D., Zhou, Y. (eds) Modeling Risk Management for Resources and Environment in China. Computational Risk Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18387-4_42
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