Stage 1 1993–1996 Emerging protest Stage 2 1996–2004 Polarization Stage 3 2004 onwards Symptoms of change Policy discourse Economic development and modernization Territorial and social solidarity Efficiency Economic development Territorial solidarity Sustainability Rational use of water Policy approach Supply-based Market and supply-based Alternative regulation of water supply Main policy output 1993–1995 Draft Project of National Water Plan 2001 National Water Plan 2004 Suppression of the Ebro transfers AGUA program† WFD adaptation‡ Main policy interventions Large hydrological infrastructures: inter-basin transfers and about 150 dams Large hydrological infrastructures: inter-basin transfers (Ebro) and about 120 dams Planning of 105 interventions including desalinization plants Policy environment Protest at the traditional supply approach Market efficiency accepted but protest at the traditional supply approach Alternative supply approach partly accepted

† Actions for Water Use and Management program
‡ Water Framework Directive