The Remunicipalization of the Urban Water Supply Service: Institutions and Common

Abstract

In the Catalan context that emerged with the outbreak of the crisis in the winter of 2008, the debate on water management has become important to the point where it is a central part of the political programs that the new candidacies that emerged after the square occupations in 2011 prepared for the local council elections of 2015. This process has run altogether with the social changes that took place after May 2011, with the citizen movement known as 15M, a fact that is verified in different aspects, such as: the message, change of subjects and treatment of water; As well as an important shift of a strategy focused on non-privatization, towards a demand of the increase of the capacity of the citizens in taking decisions on water management at the municipal scope. Moving from a national and / or regional struggle to a local scale. This article describes those aspects that give rise to the question: What conception of the common are listed articulates the new stage of struggle for municipal water and what empirical forms adopted.