TY  - GEN
T1  - Spanish water, Anglo water : early development in San Antonio
T2  - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ;
A1  - Porter, Charles R., Jr., 1951-
LA  - English
PP  - College Station Tex.
PB  - Texas A & M University Press
YR  - 2009
ED  - 1st ed.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn715188653
AB  - In 1718, the Spanish settled San Antonio, partly because of its prolific and breathtaking springs?at that time, one of the largest natural spring systems in the known world. The abundance of fresh water, coupled with the Spanish colonial legal concept that water was to be equitably shared by all settlers, led to the building of the system of acequias (canals or ditches) within the settlement. The system is one of the earliest and perhaps most extensive municipal water systems in North America. This book offers a meticulous chronicling of the origins and often-contentious development of water rights in San Antonio from its Spanish settlement through the beginning of the twentieth century.
OP  - 181
CN  - HD1695.S35 P676 2009eb
SN  - 9781603443258
SN  - 1603443258
SN  - 9781603441223
SN  - 1603441220
KW  - Water rights : Texas : San Antonio : History.
KW  - Water-supply : Social aspects : Texas : San Antonio : History.
KW  - Water-supply : Political aspects : Texas : San Antonio : History.
KW  - Water : Texas : San Antonio : Distribution : Management : History.
KW  - Land tenure : Texas : San Antonio : History.
KW  - Irrigation canals and flumes : Texas : San Antonio : History.
KW  - San Antonio (Tex.) : History.
KW  - Droits sur les eaux : Texas : San Antonio : Histoire.
KW  - Eau : Approvisionnement : Aspect social : Texas : San Antonio : Histoire.
KW  - Eau : Approvisionnement : Aspect politique : Texas : San Antonio : Histoire.
KW  - Eau : Texas : San Antonio : Distribution : Gestion : Histoire.
KW  - Canaux d'irrigation : Texas : San Antonio : Histoire.
KW  - Propriété foncière : Texas : San Antonio : Histoire.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Real Estate : General.
KW  - Irrigation canals and flumes
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Water : Distribution : Management
KW  - Water rights
KW  - Water-supply : Political aspects
KW  - Water-supply : Social aspects
KW  - Texas : San Antonio
KW  - History
ER  -