Abstract:China’s rapid industrialization and urbanization in recent decades have deteriorated its water resource quality. This study focused on water pollution in terms of the chemical oxygen demand (COD) and the levels of ammonia nitrogen in the industrial and household discharges of different Chinese provinces. Although the heterogeneity of environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) from Chinese provinces has been studied, the positions of provincial EKCs (which reflect the province-specific pollution effects not affected b… Show more
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