An Incessant Thirst: The Water Market in a Driedup Southern European Country, Spain, 1985–2022
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An Incessant Thirst: The Water Market in a Driedup Southern European Country, Spain, 1985–2022Fecha
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Mirás Araujo, J., & Rodríguez Martín, N. (2023). An Incessant Thirst. The Water Market in a Dried-up Southern European Country, Spain 1985-2022. In Juan Manuel Matés-Barco & María Vázquez-Fariñas (Eds.), Ecological Crisis and Water Supply. The Case of Andalusia in the Spanish Hydrological Context (pp. 15-34). Brill.
Resumen
[Abstract]: Spain is a hydrologically unbalanced country, in which water policies have historically
focused on increasing supply, through the construction of infrastructures to cope
with the irregularity of resources, despite being economically and ecologically
unsustainable. The medium-term evolution of water management has been
conditioned by the change in the political regime, and by the (recent) changes in the
culture of water. The aim of the chapter is to analyse the transformations of regulation
that have occurred since the rise of democracy in Spain (in particular since the passing
of the 1985 Water Act), the map of water uses, the levels and structure of consumption,
and the main agents operating in a sector that in recent decades, despite the public
nature of the utility, has undergone an increasing privatisation.
Palabras clave
Consumption
Regulation
Spain
Water
Twenty-first century
Regulation
Spain
Water
Twenty-first century
ISBN
978-90-04-54131-3