If one factory did not pollute the water, downstream factories could use the same water and there would be no shortage.
However, intensities are also affected by changing prices of (or taxes on) polluting inputs into the production process.
More than 70 per cent of the surface water (rivers) near cities is polluted.
Heavily polluted means that the index is between 1 and 2, making the water unsuitable for body contact.
The realized pollution is determined jointly by the demand for polluting rights or environmental absorption capacity and the supply of these rights.
Given the fact that real asset price motion is polluted by noise, such a procedure seems to be reasonable.
One may object that function inlining and constant propagation are purely compiler issues and should not pollute the module system.
With free trade, countries with a comparative advantage in pollution-intensive goods will pollute more-giving them an advantage in the environmental bargaining game.
