This publication, awarded with the 14th Demetrio Ribes Research Award, is an interesting work which delves into the study of water allocation for city and irrigation supply in the Valencian Community, whose rational and sustainable planning of the water resources has been an essential constant in the future of the Valencian territory and a key piece in the developing of its personal identity. Of its study we deduce an evolutionary analysis of the social, economic and politic organisation active in each period. If every public work serves for developing the landscape, this characteristic increases when the water infrastructures in general are involved and specially to the aqueduct arcades.