TY - JOUR AU - Alfaro-Rodríguez, Evelyn PY - 2017/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Social Network of Urban Water Supply: Water Carriers and Guarantors in Zacatecas, Mexico (XIX Century) JF - Agua y Territorio / Water and Landscape JA - AYT-WAL VL - 0 IS - 9 SE - Dossier DO - 10.17561/at.v0i9.3473 UR - https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/atma/article/view/3473 SP - 11-21 AB - <p>This article seeks to study a group of individuals (mostly men) during the early years of the Zacatecan mining era who supplied water to the dwellings of the inhabitants able to pay them for such service. Given the rugged topography of the mining enclave and the distance of the wells, springs and streams that surrounded the town, their work was no easy task. Although there is no record of water carriers dating to 1546 (when the Real de Minas de Nuestra Señora de Zacatecas was founded), we have data from the late eighteenth century to the end of the 19th that suggests their long participation in the trade. In this period, water carriers had to establish political and economic ties not only with the City Council that registered, regulated and organized them; they also had to contend with the fi adores (guarantors) that bonded workers who performed this occupation. In this sense, the article aims to show the development of a social network between both social actors.</p> ER -