Industrial water consumption efficiency and driving factors based on the super-efficient SBM and Tobit approach

Haixia Duo1,2, Ning Wang2, Yunfeng Qiao2

  • 1School of Water Conservancy and Architecture Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832000, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.

Scientific Reports
|April 11, 2025
PubMed

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