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The History of Water Management in the Iberian PeninsulaWater for Madrid: The Problems of Water Supply in a Pre-industrial Capital

The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula: Water for Madrid: The Problems of Water... [The water supply to Madrid has been a subject of special interest ever since Felipe II located his capital in the town. In the case of Madrid, water not only represented a necessary element for city life, which therefore had to be managed and distributed in the best possible way, but also an authentic precondition for the city’s existence as there was no river and no other alternative stable water supply. Hence, there was a need to seek out, force and even invent other sources of water supply. Therefore, more than management, we find in Madrid a case of creation and water governance, essential to enabling the city to expand from village to town and, from there, to becoming the national capital. In this study, we make some brief references to the water policies of the Habsburgs and the Spanish Bourbons, devoted to the management of water as a factor for transport and irrigation, even while it remained essential for the supply and life of the city. We focus on all of the urban supply projects for drinking, washing and cleaning water that took place in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The History of Water Management in the Iberian PeninsulaWater for Madrid: The Problems of Water Supply in a Pre-industrial Capital

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Editors: Duarte Rodrigues, Ana; Toribio Marín, Carmen
Ilera, Fernando Arroyo; Bullón, Concepción Camarero
The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula — Mar 19, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. This work was supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia under the research projects IF/00322/2014 and PTDC/HARHIS/28627/2017.
ISBN
978-3-030-34060-5
Pages
67 –88
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-34061-2_4
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[The water supply to Madrid has been a subject of special interest ever since Felipe II located his capital in the town. In the case of Madrid, water not only represented a necessary element for city life, which therefore had to be managed and distributed in the best possible way, but also an authentic precondition for the city’s existence as there was no river and no other alternative stable water supply. Hence, there was a need to seek out, force and even invent other sources of water supply. Therefore, more than management, we find in Madrid a case of creation and water governance, essential to enabling the city to expand from village to town and, from there, to becoming the national capital. In this study, we make some brief references to the water policies of the Habsburgs and the Spanish Bourbons, devoted to the management of water as a factor for transport and irrigation, even while it remained essential for the supply and life of the city. We focus on all of the urban supply projects for drinking, washing and cleaning water that took place in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.]

Published: Mar 19, 2020

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