Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-913-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-913-2021
Research article
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23 Apr 2021
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2021

Controlling water infrastructure and codifying water knowledge: institutional responses to severe drought in Barcelona (1620–1650)

Santiago Gorostiza, Maria Antònia Martí Escayol, and Mariano Barriendos

Data sets

Historical drought in Barcelona (Spain) dataset Mariano Barriendos https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4695361

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Short summary
How did cities respond to drought during the 17th century? This article studies the strategies followed by the city government of Barcelona during the severely dry period from 1620 to 1650. Beyond the efforts to expand urban water supply sources and to improve the maintenance of the system, the city government decided to compile knowledge about water infrastructure into a book and to restrict access to it. This management strategy aimed to increase the city's control over water.