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Academic Articles

 

1. García-Rubio, Miguel A., and Jorge Guardiola. 2012. “Desalination in Spain: A Growing Alternative for Water Supply.” International Journal of Water Resources Development 28, no. 1: 171-186. DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2012.642245 

 

2. March, Hug. 2015. “The politics, geography, and economics of desalination: a critical review.” WIREs Water 2: 231-243. DOI:10.1002/wat2.1073 

  

3. Swyngedouw, Erik, and Joe Williams. 2016. “From Spain’s hydro-deadlock to the desalination fix.” Water International 41, no. 1: 54-73.  DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2016.1107705 

 

4. Molina, Andrés, and Joaquín Melgarejo. 2016. “Water Policy in Spain: seeking a balance between transfers, desalination and wastewater reuse.”  International Journal of Water Resources Development 32, no. 5: 781-798. DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2015.1077103 

 

5. Loftus, Alex, and Hug March. 2016. “Financializing Desalination: Rethinking the Returns of Big Infrastructure.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 40, no. 1: 46-61. DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12342  

6. Navarro, Teresa. 2018. “Water reuse and desalination in Spain – Challenges and Opportunities.” Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination 8, no. 2: 153-168. https://doi.org/10.2166/wrd.2018.043

 

7. Domènech, Laia, Hug March, and David Saurí. 2013. “Degrowth initiatives in the urban water sector? A social multi-criteria evaluation of non-conventional water alternatives in Metropolitan Barcelona.” Journal of Cleaner Production 38: 44-55.  

 

8. Fuentes-Bargues, José Luis. 2014.  “Analysis of the process of environmental impact assessment for seawater desalination plants in Spain.” Desalination 347: 166-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2014.05.032 

 

9. Sanchez-Lizaso, José Luis, Javier Romero, Juanma Ruiz, Esperanca Gacia, E.,  José Luis Buceta, Olga Invers, Yolanda Fernandez Torquemada, Julio Mas, Antonio Ruiz-Mateo, Marta Manzanera. 2008. “Salinity tolerance of the Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica: recommendations to minimize the impact of brine discharges from desalination plants.” Desalination 221, no. 1-3: 602-607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2007.01.119.  

 

10. Barnett, Jon, and Saffron O’Neill. 2010. “Maladaptation.” Global Environmental Change 20: 211-213. 

 

11. Bakker, Karen. 2002. “From State to Market?: Water Mercantilización in Spain.” Environment and Planning A 34, no. 5: 767-790.  DOI:10.1068/a3425. 

 

12. Swyngedouw, Erik. 2013. “Into the Sea: Desalination as a Hydro-Social Fix in Spain.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103, no. 2: 261-270. DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754688. 

 

13. March, Hug, Mar Grau-Satorras, David Saurí. 2019. "The Deadlock of Metropolitan Remunicipalisation of Water Services Management in Barcelona." Water Alternatives 12, no. 2: 360-379.  

 

14. March, Hug, and Thomas Purcell. 2014. "The muddy waters of financialisation and new accumulation strategies in the global water industry: The case of AGBAR." Geoforum 53 (2014): 11-20.

 

15. Garb, Yaakov. 2005. "Constructing the Trans-Israel Highway's Inevitability." Israel studies 9, no. 2: 180-217.

 

16. Riu, Albert Santasusagna. 2019. “La gestion des cours d’eau dans la Barcelone métropolitaine (Espagne): Les enjeux de la valorisation des espaces fluviaux du Llobregat et du Besòs.” Revue 47: 11-23. https://doi.org/10.4000/soe.5133

 

17.  Del Moral, Leandro, Julia Martínez-Fernández & Nuria Hernández-Mora. 2017. “Ongoing dialogues with Erik Swyngedouw about desalination in Spain.” Water International 42, no. 3: 333-338. DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2017.1303600.

 

18. March, Hug, David Saurí, and Antonia M. Rico-Amorós. 2014. “The End of Scarcity? Water Desalination as The New Cornucopia for Mediterranean Spain.” Journal of Hydrology. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.jhydrol.2014.04.023.

 

19. Forero-Ortiz, Edwar, Eduardo Martinez-Gomariz, and Robert Monjo. 2020. “Climate Change Implications for Water Availability: A Case Study of Barcelona City.” Sustainability 12, no. 5: 1779.  https://doi.org/10.3390/su12051779

 

20. Sanz, Miguel Angel, and Carlos Miguel. 2013. “The role of SWRO Barcelona-Llobregat Plant in the water supply system of Barcelona Area.” Desalination and Water Treatment 51, no. 1-3: 111-123. 

 

21. March, Hug, and David Saurí. 2009. “The Suburbanization of Water Scarcity in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region: Sociodemographic and Urban Changes Influencing Domestic Water Consumption.” The Professional Geographer 62, no. 1: 32-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330120903375860

22. Van Dijk, Teun A. 2006. “Ideology and Discourse Analysis.” Journal of Political Ideologies 11, no. 2: 115-140. DOI: 10.1080/13569310600687908. 

 

23. Cid Català, J. S. 2017. “L'Ebre, un riu literari.” 1-162.

 

24. Margalef, Montserrat Boquera. 2007. “‘LO RIU ÉS VIDA": Percepcions antropològiques de l'Ebre català’” (Doctoral dissertation, Universitat Rovira i Virgili).

 

25. Gili, Ricard. (2002). “Les Terres de l'Ebre davant el PHN: Dimensions polítiques i territorials en la defensa de l’aigua: el cas de les Terres de l’Ebre.” Lo Floc 171: 4-6.

 

26. Mendizàbal, Enric. 2009. “Aproximació a la geografia històrica i cultural dels paisatges de Catalunya”. Cercles: Revista d'història cultural 12: 104-128.

 

27. Kucera, Jane. Desalination: Water from Water. Hoboken: Wiley, 2019.

28. Latour, Bruno. 2006. Nous n'avons jamais été modernes: Essai d'anthropologie symétrique. Paris: La Découverte. https://doi.org/10.3917/dec.latou.2006.01

Websites & Newspaper articles

(I) El prat.cat

https://www.elprat.cat/actualitat/noticies/la-dessalinitzadora-del-prat-considerada-la-millor-del-mon

 

(II) Suez.com(1)

https://www.suez.com/en/our-offering/success-stories/our-references/barcelone-seawater-desalination-plant

 

(III) Suez. com (2)

https://www.suez.com/en/our-offering/local-authorities/what-are-you-looking-for/water-management/drinking-water-production

 

(IV) aca.gencat (1)

http://aca.gencat.cat/es/laigua/infraestructures/dessalinitzadores/

 

(V) aca.gentat (2)

http://aca.gencat.cat/es/laigua/infraestructures/dessalinitzadores/dessalinitzadora-del-prat/

 

(VI) aca.gencat (3)

https://www.atl.cat/ca/dessalinitzadora-del-llobregat_2458 

 

(VII) aca.gencat (4)

http://aca.gencat.cat/ca/laca/observatori-del-preu-de-laigua/preu-de-laigua-composicio-serveis-i-altres-conceptes/

 

(VIII) sequera.gencat (1)

https://sequera.gencat.cat/ca/accions/

 

(IX) sequera.gencat (2)

https://sequera.gencat.cat/ca/accions/com-garantim-laigua-durant-la-sequera/

 

(X) sequera.gencat (3)

https://sequera.gencat.cat/ca/accions/el-semafor-de-la-sequera/index.html

 

(XI) sequera.gencat (4)

https://sequera.gencat.cat/ca/la-sequera/el-pla-especial-de-la-sequera/ 

 

(XII) aca.gencat (5)

http://aca.gencat.cat/ca/laca/sobre-laca/or-blau-reptes-aigua/ 

 

(XIII) atl.cat (1)

https://www.atl.cat/ca/xarxa-de-distribucio_3776

 

(XIV) OHCHR.org

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Water/Questionnaire/NonStates/SUEZ_SPAIN.pdf

 

(XV) decidim.barcelona

https://www.decidim.barcelona/processes/PlaLitoralBCN

 

(XVI) ajuntament. barcelona (1)

https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ecologiaurbana/es/servicios/la-ciudad-funciona/urbanismo-y-gestion-del-territorio/informacion-urbanistica

 

(XVII) amb.cat

https://www.amb.cat/s/web/ecologia/aigua/cicle-de-l-aigua/abastament.html

 

(XVIII) ajuntament. barcelona (2)

https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ecologiaurbana/ca/serveis/la-ciutat-funciona/manteniment-de-l-espai-public/gestio-integral-de-l-aigua/gestio-publica-aigua/aigua-ciutat/d-on-ve-aigua-ciutat

 

(XIX) aca.gencat (6)

http://aca.gencat.cat/ca/laigua/consulta-de-dades/dades-obertes/visualitzacio-interactiva-dades/Consum-aigua-comarques-catalunya/ 

 

(XX) ajuntament. barcelona (3)

https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ecologiaurbana/ca/serveis/la-ciutat-funciona/manteniment-de-l-espai-public/gestio-integral-de-l-aigua/gestio-publica-aigua/aigua-ciutat/us-consum and https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ecologiaurbana/sites/default/files/InformeConsumAiguaBarcelona-2016.pdf

 

(XXI) nyn.es

https://www.nyn.es/es/blog/un-viaje-en-el-tiempo-la-evolucion-del-urbanismo-en-barcelona

(XXII) Suez group

 https://www.suez.com/en/who-we-are/a-worldwide-leader

(XXIII) El Confidencial

https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/ciencia/2017-08-04/trasvase-catalan-ter-agua-tajo-segura_1424766/ 

(XXIV) El Pais (1)

 https://elpais.com/diario/1992/06/08/espana/707954409_850215.html

(XXV) Acciona (1)

 https://www.acciona.com

(XXVI) Acciona (2)

 https://www.acciona.com/es/soluciones/agua/

(XXVII) Generalitat  de Catalunya

 http://ptop.gencat.cat/muc-visor/AppJava/home.do

 

(XXVIII) Water World

https://www.waterworld.com/drinking-water/treatment/article/16216021/drinking-water-management-contract-awarded-in-barcelona 

 

(XXIX) BBC

 https://www.bbc.com/mundo/ciencia_tecnologia/2009/07/090723_1746_agua_mediterraneo

 

(XXX) Cronica

https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/pensamiento/aiguees-ter-llobregat-estafa-mil-millones-contribuyente_213510_102.html

 

(XXXI) La Vanguardia (1)

https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20120409/54283155818/desalinizadoras-catalanas-aumentar-produccion-sequia.html

 

(XXXII) La Vanguardia (2)

https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelona/20190702/463246273629/atl-atll-agua-ter-llobregat-inversion.html
 

(XXXIII) El Pais (2)

https://elpais.com/economia/2018/06/18/actualidad/1529342744_429838.html

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