The Rational Use of Water Resources in the Strategy of Industry 4.0

Natalia A. Kosolapova (), Ludmila G. Matveeva (), Anastasia Y. Nikitaeva () and Lesego Molapisi ()
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Natalia A. Kosolapova: Southern Federal University
Ludmila G. Matveeva: Southern Federal University
Anastasia Y. Nikitaeva: Southern Federal University
Lesego Molapisi: Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2021, vol. 35, issue 9, No 19, 3023-3041

Abstract: Abstract The article substantiates that the transformation of the world economy associated with Industry 4.0 leads to a significant change in the way resources are used and affects the possibility of implementing the concept of sustainable development. In this regard, a combined analysis of the concept of new industrial development and the concept of sustainable development, as well as an assessment of the current practice of their implementation is required. In this paper, such an analysis was carried out on the example of water resources management. The paper proposes a methodology for assessing the correlation of water management and industrial development levels of regions. This includes the use of both traditional statistical approaches to the analysis of the level of development of economic systems, and elements of data mining. The neural network is constructed in order to estimate the forecasted values of the water intensity of the gross regional product when the indicators of the level of industrial development of the regions change. The results show that the most significant indicators for changing water intensity include advanced production technologies used, the share of value-added to high-tech industries, and innovative activities of organisations.

Keywords: Water resources; Industry 4.0; Sustainable development; Rational water use; Neural network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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