Role of Water Resources in the Location of South Carolina Industry

摘要

Population potential was used in a prediction model for plant locations of water related manufacturing industries in South Carolina. It was found that concentration has occurred since 1970 for heavy water users and other manufacturing plants, but that the concentration is much more dramatic for the heavy water users. This concentration was more noticeable as population potential increased, except for the highest population potential class where concentration was presumably intense already. The occurrence of federal water pollution legislation and increases in stream standards, around 1970, has altered the relative desirability of locating on flowing streams. There now is a tendency for new plants to locate near urban areas and near other plants to take advantage of the many benefits of more concentrated factor markets and urban amenities afforded by more densely populated areas and(or) to have access to urban water and waste treatment systems.