Reflections on urban water services management: A historic journey of Spanish case

En un primer trabajo —Analysis of urban water management in historical perspective: evidence for the Spanish case― estudiamos la existencia de una tendencia cíclica en la gestión del servicio urbano de aguas desde mediados del siglo XIX. Observamos que los periodos de mayor participación pública eran reemplazados por periodos de gestión privada y viceversa. El presente trabajo quiere estudiar las principales causas de los procesos de reprivatización del servicio urbano de aguas, desde el último cuarto del siglo XX, a partir de la revisión de una serie de trabajos publicados sobre este tema de investigación. El objetivo es reflexionar sobre las principales causas capaces de explicar dichos procesos.In a fi rst research study – Analysis of urban water management in historical perspective: evidence for the Spanish case – the cyclical trend in the urban water management services since the mid-nineteenth century was studied by the author. It was observed that most important periods of public management were replaced by periods in which private management dominates the situation and vice versa. The aim of this study focuses on the main causes that have led to processes of reprivatization of urban water services since the last quarter of the twentieth century, taking into account several published papers in this research area which have been revised. The fi nal goal will be to refl ect about these main explanatory factors behind reprivatization processes