ABSTRACT
Water Policy has proved fertile ground for the construction of political leadership at different times and in different contexts. In Spain the short-lived Second Republic pressed ahead with the Water Policy from a theoretical standpoint, drawing up the First National Plan for Hydraulic Works, and in terms of actual construction. This chapter focuses on public policy, that has become a significant field of research in the area of Cultural Anthropology. Policy brings the wider world into contact with the local, and it is because of this that Anthropologists have stressed the local in their analyses. The ethnographic tradition of the discipline has reinforced this local view by revealing the weaknesses of policy measures that fail to take account of the cultural dimension and social impact of mega-development projects in specific communities and territories. the chapter also focuses on new redemption, which is a central concept of Christianity, expressing the key event of the New Testament story.
