Collection and use of water for public supply in rural areas of Spain; Captacion y uso del agua para abastecimiento publico en la zona rural de Espaa

In this study it is synthesized the information about water withdrawals and uses taken from the Survey about Local Infrastructure and Equipment promoted by the Ministerio para las Administraciones Publicas in 1986 for small towns with less than 20.000 inhabitants. This summary covers 28.362 centres of population belonging to the whole Spanish territory except the Autonomous Communities of Navarra and Pais Vasco, and it shows types of withdrawals in relation to the water origin, characteristics of the withdrawals, water a availabilities annual energy consumption for forced installations as well as water use in dry and rainy season. Data about the population supplied have been added and all this has been summarized according to four groups which show significant differences: according to types of withdrawal, size of the centres of population, hidrographic basins and Autonomous Communities. (Author) 17 refs.