Summary - TST 26

TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES


TST 26

Beatriz R. SOLVEIRA
Agua y saneamiento en la ciudad de Córdoba (Argentina) (1880-1935).
 

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Key Words: Emigration; navigation company; accumulation; shipping.

[ Abstract ]

The purpose of this article is to analyze several difficulties Cordoba City faced in order to establish running water and sanitation services – sewage and draining – and the polemics that surge around the type of management applied.Since the initiation of the running water system up to the mid-thirties, service management was successively uncharged of a private company, the Provincial State and the Municipality; after that, Federal Government creates a particular institution in order to manage water and sanitation services. This research intend to demonstrate that in Cordoba´s experience, private parties shown very low interest in the management of this public services, and that the only participation this sector had before the Federal Government intervention, failed. This situation left free range for Municipal, Provincial and National Governments, with different results in each case: inefficacy in the first one, failure in the second and successful management in the third level; National Government counted with technical, administrative and financial resources, which made possible the proper sanitation of Córdoba City.