On the legitimacy of public water service management

Abstract

The essay investigates the basis of legitimacy of the public management of the water service. From this perspective, it examines the provisions of domestic and European law relevant to the topic. And this in order to demonstrate the fallacy of any claim aimed at justifying the twist of the national legislator in favor of the market and its rules in light of stringent supranational obligations to be implemented, as well as to mark the most direct adherence of the public management of the water service to those goods and values that our Constitution Charter considers among those fundamental and founding our cultural and legal identity