Historia del derecho medioambiental: La tutela de las aguas en las fuentes jurídicas Castellanas de la Edad Moderna

Abstract

This work analyzes some provisions of Modern Age Castilian Law aimed at protecting the water as an environmental source of contamination. At those times we can see an increasing concern for cleaning fountains, wells and irrigation ditches, for the sewage system and channeling the sewage water as well as for delimiting the competence of the authorities in charge of controlling the cleaning of the cities. Commonly, the matters related to the water, its care, maintenance, cleaning and protection against polluting agents used to be compiled in local provisions, especially in municipal re gulations regarding environmental aspects from a hygiene/sanitary or public health point of view. Thus, we focus on several municipal regulations. Within the context of the General Law, we examine the water protection in the "Montalvo Regulations", in the "New" Compilation and the Novísima Recopilación.