Juan Manuel Matés-Barco, Ph.D. in History (1997), University of Granada, is Professor of Economic and Business History at the University of Jaen. Director of the journal Agua y Territorio/Water and Landscape. Head Researcher of the Group of Historical Studies on Enterprise (Grupo de Estudios Históricos sobre la Empresa).María Vázquez-Fariñas, Ph.D. in Social and Legal Sciences (2017), University of Cadiz, is Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Malaga. She has published on the economic and business history of 19th-century Cadiz and the development of public services in contemporary Spain.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNote on Contributors1 Water Supply Management in AndalusiaJuan Manuel Matés-Barco2 An Incessant Thirst: The Water Market in a Dried-Up Southern European Country, Spain 1985–2022Jesús Mirás Araujo and Nuria Rodríguez Martín3 Between Private and Public: Water Supply Infrastructures in Portugal in the First Half of the Twentieth Century An Attempted Comparison with SpainMaria Ana Bernardo and Ana Cardoso de Matos4 Public Health, Sanitary Movement and Public Water Supply Services in the Nineteenth Century: the Cases of England and SpainNuria Magaldi5 Water Supply in the City of Cadiz in the Nineteenth Century: The Cadiz Water Works Company LimitedMaría Vázquez-Fariñas6 The Improvement of the Water Supply Infrastructures in Antequera (1818–1932)José Escalante-Jiménez, Mercedes Fernández-Paradas and Carlos Larrinaga7 Foreign Companies, Public Intervention, and Ecological Crisis: Water in Seville, 1871–1959Alberte Martínez-López8 The New Supply of Potable Water in Malaga (Spain) in the 1920s: a Sustainable System?Víctor Manuel Heredia-Flores9 Water Supply in the El Aljarafe District (Seville Province, Spain): a Historical PerspectiveJesús Raúl Navarro-García10 The “Price” of Water in Andalusia: an Approach to the Tariff Systems of the Domestic Water Supply ServiceMaría José Vargas-Machuca Salido11 Research on Wastewater Taxes: an Essential Contribution to Improving Environmental ManagementLeticia Gallego-Valero, Encarnación Moral-Pajares and Isabel María Román-Sánchez12 The Symbolic Configuration of Andalusian Rivers: Iconography and Artistic ValuesAntonio Rafael Fernández-Paradas and Rubén Sánchez GuzmánIndex

Juan Manuel Matés-Barco, Ph.D. in History (1997), University of Granada, is Professor of Economic and Business History at the University of Jaen. Director of the journal Agua y Territorio/Water and Landscape. Head Researcher of the Group of Historical Studies on Enterprise (Grupo de Estudios Históricos sobre la Empresa).María Vázquez-Fariñas, Ph.D. in Social and Legal Sciences (2017), University of Cadiz, is Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Malaga. She has published on the economic and business history of 19th-century Cadiz and the development of public services in contemporary Spain.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNote on Contributors1 Water Supply Management in AndalusiaJuan Manuel Matés-Barco2 An Incessant Thirst: The Water Market in a Dried-Up Southern European Country, Spain 1985–2022Jesús Mirás Araujo and Nuria Rodríguez Martín3 Between Private and Public: Water Supply Infrastructures in Portugal in the First Half of the Twentieth Century An Attempted Comparison with SpainMaria Ana Bernardo and Ana Cardoso de Matos4 Public Health, Sanitary Movement and Public Water Supply Services in the Nineteenth Century: the Cases of England and SpainNuria Magaldi5 Water Supply in the City of Cadiz in the Nineteenth Century: The Cadiz Water Works Company LimitedMaría Vázquez-Fariñas6 The Improvement of the Water Supply Infrastructures in Antequera (1818–1932)José Escalante-Jiménez, Mercedes Fernández-Paradas and Carlos Larrinaga7 Foreign Companies, Public Intervention, and Ecological Crisis: Water in Seville, 1871–1959Alberte Martínez-López8 The New Supply of Potable Water in Malaga (Spain) in the 1920s: a Sustainable System?Víctor Manuel Heredia-Flores9 Water Supply in the El Aljarafe District (Seville Province, Spain): a Historical PerspectiveJesús Raúl Navarro-García10 The “Price” of Water in Andalusia: an Approach to the Tariff Systems of the Domestic Water Supply ServiceMaría José Vargas-Machuca Salido11 Research on Wastewater Taxes: an Essential Contribution to Improving Environmental ManagementLeticia Gallego-Valero, Encarnación Moral-Pajares and Isabel María Román-Sánchez12 The Symbolic Configuration of Andalusian Rivers: Iconography and Artistic ValuesAntonio Rafael Fernández-Paradas and Rubén Sánchez GuzmánIndex

Juan Manuel Matés-Barco, Ph.D. in History (1997), University of Granada, is Professor of Economic and Business History at the University of Jaen. Director of the journal Agua y Territorio/Water and Landscape. Head Researcher of the Group of Historical Studies on Enterprise (Grupo de Estudios Históricos sobre la Empresa).María Vázquez-Fariñas, Ph.D. in Social and Legal Sciences (2017), University of Cadiz, is Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Malaga. She has published on the economic and business history of 19th-century Cadiz and the development of public services in contemporary Spain.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNote on Contributors1 Water Supply Management in AndalusiaJuan Manuel Matés-Barco2 An Incessant Thirst: The Water Market in a Dried-Up Southern European Country, Spain 1985–2022Jesús Mirás Araujo and Nuria Rodríguez Martín3 Between Private and Public: Water Supply Infrastructures in Portugal in the First Half of the Twentieth Century An Attempted Comparison with SpainMaria Ana Bernardo and Ana Cardoso de Matos4 Public Health, Sanitary Movement and Public Water Supply Services in the Nineteenth Century: the Cases of England and SpainNuria Magaldi5 Water Supply in the City of Cadiz in the Nineteenth Century: The Cadiz Water Works Company LimitedMaría Vázquez-Fariñas6 The Improvement of the Water Supply Infrastructures in Antequera (1818–1932)José Escalante-Jiménez, Mercedes Fernández-Paradas and Carlos Larrinaga7 Foreign Companies, Public Intervention, and Ecological Crisis: Water in Seville, 1871–1959Alberte Martínez-López8 The New Supply of Potable Water in Malaga (Spain) in the 1920s: a Sustainable System?Víctor Manuel Heredia-Flores9 Water Supply in the El Aljarafe District (Seville Province, Spain): a Historical PerspectiveJesús Raúl Navarro-García10 The “Price” of Water in Andalusia: an Approach to the Tariff Systems of the Domestic Water Supply ServiceMaría José Vargas-Machuca Salido11 Research on Wastewater Taxes: an Essential Contribution to Improving Environmental ManagementLeticia Gallego-Valero, Encarnación Moral-Pajares and Isabel María Román-Sánchez12 The Symbolic Configuration of Andalusian Rivers: Iconography and Artistic ValuesAntonio Rafael Fernández-Paradas and Rubén Sánchez GuzmánIndex