This article examines the ways in which the perception of Rio de Janeiro's drinking water contributed to shaping the city's hydric management in colonial and imperial times. Even though the general assessment of climate and vegetation changed from paradisiacal to noxious in the second half of the eighteenth century in accordance with Enlightenment ideas, this had no effect on the locals’ appreciation of the city's drinking water. The criteria for evaluating the quality and quantity of available water were based on works from classical antiquity and remained essentially unchanged from early colonial times to the end of the empire. Not even population growth and increasing susceptibility to epidemics in the nineteenth century induced the authorities to reform the water supply system, as they were confident that the city was provided with good and abundant water by virtue of its natural predisposition.

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天堂为谁？16 至 19 世纪里约热内卢饮用水供应的保守主义和进步

本文探讨了对里约热内卢饮用水的看法如何影响了殖民时期和帝国时期城市的水管理。尽管按照启蒙思想，对气候和植被的总体评价在 18 世纪下半叶从天堂般的变为有害的，但这并没有影响当地人对城市饮用水的欣赏。评估可用水的质量和数量的标准基于古典时期的作品，从早期殖民时代到帝国末期基本保持不变。甚至 19 世纪的人口增长和流行病的易感性都没有促使当局改革供水系统，