Nacemento e desenvolvemento dun servicio público esencial: o abastecemento de auga na cidade de A Coruña, 1903-1936

Abstract

The founding and development of Coruña's waterworks followed a pattern to that which took place in other Spanish cities. The project phase lasted a long time and was very problematic. The financial and managerial incapacity of the local authorities to set the utility in motion provoked the intervention of local banking capital. During the first ten years of the utilities existence a «basic» service was established, and with the help of the City Council consumption habits were modified. The Company's network expanded greatly during the twenties and early thirties, and the Great Depression was to have little effect.