A Century of Water Supply Companies and Their Influence on the Development of Spanish Society (1842–1942)
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Title: | A Century of Water Supply Companies and Their Influence on the Development of Spanish Society (1842–1942) |
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Authors: | Pérez-de-la-Cruz, Francisco-Javier | Trapote, Arturo | Melgarejo, Joaquín | Chazarra-Zapata, Jesús |
Research Group/s: | Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental (IngHA) | Recursos Hídricos y Desarrollo Sostenible | Historia e Instituciones Económicas (HIE) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario del Agua y las Ciencias Ambientales |
Keywords: | Water management | Water supply companies | Foreign investment | Modern drinking water system |
Knowledge Area: | Ingeniería Hidráulica | Historia e Instituciones Económicas |
Issue Date: | 21-Sep-2020 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Citation: | Pérez-de-la-Cruz F-J, Trapote-Jaume A, Melgarejo-Moreno J, Chazarra-Zapata J. A Century of Water Supply Companies and Their Influence on the Development of Spanish Society (1842–1942). Water. 2020; 12(9):2634. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12092634 |
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. |
Sponsor: | This research was supported by the Water Chair of the University of Alicante–Alicante Provincial Council (2020) and by the CampusHábitat5U network of excellence. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/109489 |
ISSN: | 2073-4441 |
DOI: | 10.3390/w12092634 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/w12092634 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - Recursos Hídricos y Desarrollo Sostenible - Artículos de Revistas INV - Historia e Instituciones Económicas - Artículos de Revistas INV - IngHA - Artículos de Revistas |
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