Skip to content
Research Article Open access CC BY 4.0

Assessment of Water Quality to Economic Development: A Quantifying Environmental Kuznets Curve

V. Priyanga, M. Thilagavathi, K. N. Selvaraj

International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · pp. 66–74 · Published 21 Feb 2023

10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i21654

Abstract

The study intends to investigate the relationship between the growth of the economy and surface water pollutants in Tamil Nadu using the concept of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). The study used cross-sectional time series (panel data) data for water pollutants such as Dissolved oxygen and conductivity, BOD, Total Coliforms and Fecal Coliforms across 16 districts in Tamil Nadu for the period 2003–2019. The findings of the study revealed that there was no indication of an EKC for Dissolved Oxygen and BOD; instead, Dissolved oxygen has a monotonically declining relationship while BOD has a monotonically increasing relationship, and the first turning point is yet to be achieved for both the water quality indices. The relationship between income and conductivity found a U-shaped relationship with the turning point on Rs.131.98 billion. The existence of an Inverted U-shaped EKC relationship for Fecal coliforms and Total Coliforms with the turning point on Rs. 482.22 and Rs. 477.65 billion, respectively.

Economic growth EKC panel data water pollution Tamil Nadu

References (6)

  1. 1 The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for water pollution: Do regions matter? [DOI]
  2. 2 Economic Growth and the Environment [DOI]
  3. 3 An empirical analysis of the environmental Kuznets curve for water pollution in India [DOI]
  4. 4 Examining Environmental Kuznets Curve for river effluents in India [DOI]
  5. 5 An Empirical Analysis of the Environmental Kuznets Curve for River Water Pollution in Uttar Pradesh [DOI]
  6. 6 Water Quality Response to Economic Development: Quantifying Environmental Kuznets Curve [DOI]

Cited by 6

Environmental Kuznets Curve applications for water pollution in the EU.

Victoria Dinov, J. Henao, Pietro Sala · Journal of Environmental Management · 2025

An Environmental Kuznet Curve for Water Pollution: Does Water Abundance Affect the Turning Point?

Nazif Durmaz, Alexi Thompson · 2023

An Environmental Kuznets Curve for water pollution: Does water abundance affect the turning point?

Nazif Durmaz, Alexi Thompson · Science of The Total Environment · 2024

Showing 3 of 6 known citations — external sources report more than can currently be individually listed.

Related research

Article metrics

Real usage data collected on this platform.

2

Page views

0

PDF downloads

0

Outbound clicks

6

Citations

Views over time

Views by country

Approximate, from request IP at view time — not citizenship or institution. Countries with fewer than 5 views are grouped as "Other".

Traffic sources

Referring site, by host.

Views and downloads exclude known bots/crawlers. Citations combines this platform's own DOI-resolved index with each external source's own reported total — see Cited by above for individually listed citing works. Last refreshed 0 seconds ago.