Remunicipalisation in Catalonia: Strategies and Responses

Míriam Planas Martín (), Dante Maschio Gastelaars and Quim Pérez Gómez
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Dante Maschio Gastelaars: Aigua és Vida
Quim Pérez Gómez: Aigua és Vida

Development, 2022, vol. 65, issue 2, 228-236

Abstract: Abstract In Catalonia, 81% of the population receives their water from private operators; this has a direct impact on water governance, which has been hijacked by the main private operator, Agbar, with the connivance of the public administration. Since 2010, there has been a slow but steady process of remunicipalisation, with 32 Catalan municipalities having regained public water management, 28 more in the process of doing so and 150 further concessions that have expired or will expire by 2030. At the same time, 20 citizens’ groups have been set up in municipalities and are struggling to regain public, democratic water management. This article describes the growing remunicipalisation process in Catalonia and the response of the transnational company that manages water.

Keywords: Privatization; Water governance; Power imbalance; Power abuse; Aguas de Barcelona (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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