Summary - TST 26

TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES


TST 26

Alexandre FERNANDEZ
La distribution de l’eau à Bordeaux de 1852 à 2011: singularité et exemplarité d’une économie politique des services techniques urbains.
 

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Key Words: Bordeaux, water utilities, water management, private company, public services, Société Lyonnaise des Eaux.

[ Abstract ]

The case study of implantation and growth of water supply in Bordeaux at the mid-XIXth century is used for observing level and mean of acting by a municipal management. In 1949 the big company Lyonnaise des Eaux took charge of water networks and sewage in Bordeaux and metropolitan area. Lyonnaise des Eaux carried on with the general growth of the demand during the second half of century and with the ecology since the 1980’s.