La modernidad impulsada desde el poder localsaneamiento económico y aguas potables en Granada (1924-1928).

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This article analyzes the main modernizing projects promoted by the City Council of Granada constituted under the Municipal Statute of 1924. The City Council cleared up the accounts, paid outstanding debts and set the sewerage, water supply, and water treatment project as a priority. For this, it introduced a new tax collection. The water project, however, generated serious internal conflicts into the power bloc that had led the Marquis of Casablanca to be the Mayor of Granada. That project began at the end of 1923 and culminated with the approval by the majority of one of the two solutions proposed by the Jury in the summer of 1927. The decision generated a political crisis that was resolved with the forced resignation of the ten councilors who did not vote with the Mayor and the Duke of San Pedro de Galatino was fined for disseminating chemical and bacteriological analyzes that questioned the potability of the waters of the upper Genil river basin. The acceptance of the project by the Central Board of Health occurred four years after the approval of the Statute. After overcoming all the challenges presented to the project, the Marquis of Casablanca resigned due to poor health in August 1928.