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- Title
A Century of Water Supply Companies and Their Influence on the Development of Spanish Society (1842–1942).
- Authors
Pérez-de-la-Cruz, Francisco-Javier; Trapote-Jaume, Arturo; Melgarejo-Moreno, Joaquín; Chazarra-Zapata, Jesús
- Abstract
During a certain period in the history of Spain, in the years of the Second Industrial Revolution, water companies played a very important role in managing a public service as necessary and complex as the supply of drinking water to the population. This article describes the emergence of these companies in the economic framework of the second half of the 19th century, as well as their expansion and territorial distribution, their evolution towards large companies that unified and monopolised the sector and their progressive decline in the 20th century, characterised by an increase in municipal control and influenced by different national and international war conflicts. The data collected in the different statistical yearbooks allows us to study these companies, and identify the characteristics of the modern drinking water system in Spain, together with the importance of foreign investment and the influence of these companies on the economic development of the time.
- Subjects
SPAIN; WATER utilities; WATER supply; DRINKING water; MUNICIPAL services; FOREIGN investments; TERRITORIAL waters
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2020, Vol 12, Issue 9, p2634
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w12092634