Author(s)

Yi Zhu

Corresponding Author

Yi Zhu

Abstract

Water is a kind of scarce and valuable resource. Water-saving is not only important for the sustainable development, but also crucial for environment protection in China. Enterprises account for a big part of water consumption, and improving its water-saving performance has great economic and social values. This paper attempts to make a comprehensive analysis of enterprises’ water-saving performance and its influencing factors based on survey data Jiangning District in Nanjing. Our findings indicate that good management system can significantly improve water-saving efficiency of an enterprise as well as capital scale. We also find that water-saving efficiency is greatly influenced by nature of ownership, as well as government regulation and social supervision. The results also show that the enterprise should pay more attention to its domestic water consumption, which significantly influences its water-saving performance.

Keywords

Water-saving, Environment protection, Management, OLS