TY - JOUR AU - Rückert, Fabiano Quadros PY - 2018/04/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The public power and water supply Companies in the Province of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1822-1889) JF - Agua y Territorio / Water and Landscape JA - AYT-WAL VL - 0 IS - 11 SE - Dossier DO - 10.17561/at.11.2438 UR - https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/atma/article/view/2438 SP - 22-33 AB - The aim of this paper is to address a part of the history of sanitation in Rio Grande do Sul from a set of government actions aimed specifically at the water supply during the imperial period (1822-1889). The text of the focus was directed to the analysis of government involvement in the creation of private companies that held the water supply service in the cities of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande and Pelotas - service involving public and private interests and that caused major changes in water use practices in their cities. The construction of the text was based on the interpretation of various documentary sources: government reports, engineering studies, press materials and documents of water supply companies. ER -