Case Study 1: Matarraña River Basin - Euwareness

5. National and river basin regimes: main developments
Once the impact of national regulation on the Matarraña river basin practices has been
analysed, and once actors operating at several levels of governance have been
characterised, the following section presents a table in which the national and river
basin developments are chronologically summarised. The aim of this table is briefly
showing the extent to which both the national and river basin regime evolve towards
integrated regimes, and what the main connections in both processes are. This
summarising table will allow for the understanding of the following section, in which the
phases towards integration in the Matarraña river case will be analysed in detail.
First Water Act
Civil Code
National developments
The Plan for Hydraulic Works is adopted
The CHE is created
The Franco regime suppresses the
representation of users in the
Hydrographical Confederations
The Spanish Constitution is adopted
The government adopts a Decree
recovering the participatory nature of
Hydrographical Confederations (with
representation of administrations,
irrigation communities, hydroelectric
companies and industrial users)
Date
1886/
1879
1889
1902
1906
1926
1930
1942
1950
1955
1970s
1978
1978
1979
Matarraña river basin developments
The plan includes the regulation of the
Matarraña river basin
The Pena water dam is authorised
The Pena water dam is finished
The Central Union is created
The Central Union alerts of the
insufficient water provided by the Pena
dam
Expansion of peach crops
The CHE builds a diversion tunnel
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