La gran obra hidràulica a les conques de la Muga i del Fluviàdels projectes a les realitzacions (1850-1980)

Abstract

The aim of the thesis is to know the paper that the great hydraulic works have been in two mediterranean river basins called Muga and Fluvià located in Catalonia (province of Girona, Spain). The perspective of the study will be historical and territorial. The thesis realizes a retrospective reconstruction of the projects of great hydraulic works (dams/reservoirs + complementary channels) that have been conceived or built in both river basins during the last 150 years. In this process the study gives a special attention to their justifications, their aims, their peculiarities, their promoters, and the reasons of their issue or of their failure. All this is framed in the planification, policies, and hydraulic legislation pertaining to the state. The election of two neighbouring rivers provides the elements to establish an evolutional comparative analysis between both. Here we add the effects of the influence of the nearing Ter river, when is decided the partial supply with their waters to the city of Barcelona.