Residential Tourism, Swimming Pools, and Water Demand in the Western Mediterranean  Alvaro-Francisco Morote University of Alicante David Saurí Autonomous University of Barcelona María Hern andez University of Alicante Many Mediterranean areas have recently witnessed a proliferation of new urban and tourist-related features following low- density residential patterns that contrast with the traditional high-density urban typologies of Mediterranean cities. The aim of this research is to investigate the links between residential tourism and water consumption through swimming pools, which constitute one key element of the new urban landscapes in the coast of Alicante (southeastern Spain). We have digitized pools in nine municipalities of coastal Alicante and calculated the average depth and estimated water losses due to evaporation. Results show that swimming pools are widely available in tourist residential enclaves but that they tend to display different characteristics according to factors such as the history of the urbanization process and relative wealth of the different areas. We have detected a clear contrast between the large individual pools of the richer northern municipalities and the smaller individual pools and community pools in the newly developed but less well-off urban enclaves of the southern coast. Key Words: consumption, Mediterranean, swimming pools, tourism, water. 晚近诸多地中海地区, 随着地中海城市的低密度住宅模式对比传统高密度城市的模型, 见证了新兴城市与观光相关的特徵之 扩散。本研究的目的, 便是透过游泳池, 探讨旅居观光与水资源消费之间的连结, 而游泳池则是构成阿利坎特 (西班牙东南 方) 沿海的新兴城市地景的一项主要元素。我们将阿利坎特沿海九座行政区中的游泳池进行数码化, 并计算平均深度, 以及 估计因蒸发所导致的水资源损失。研究结果显示, 游泳池在观光客居住的飞地中广泛可及, 但它们根据诸如城市化过程的历 史, 以及不同地区的相对财富等因素, 倾向呈现不同的特徵。我们侦测到较富裕的北方行政区的大型个人游泳池, 及其与新 开发但较不富裕的南方沿海城市飞地的小型个人泳池和社区游泳池之间的明显对比。 关键词: 消费, 地中海, 游泳池, 观光, 水资源。 Recientemente, muchas  areas mediterr  aneas han presenciado la proliferaci on de nuevos rasgos urbanos y aquellos que se relacionan con turistas, siguiendo los patrones residenciales de baja densidad que contrastan con las tipologías tradicionales urbanas de alta densidad de las ciudades mediterr aneas. El objeto de este estudio es investigar los vínculos que existen entre el turismo residencial y el consumo de agua para piscinas de nataci on, que constituyen un elemento clave de los nuevos paisajes urbanos de la costa de Alicante (sudeste de Espa~ na). Hemos digitalizado las piscinas de nueve municipalidades del Alicante costero y calculado la profundidad promedia y p erdidas estimadas de agua por evaporaci on. Los resultados muestran que las piscinas de nataci on proliferan en los enclaves turísticos residenciales pero que aquellas tienden a desplegar diferentes características de acuerdo con factores tales como la historia del proceso de urbanizaci on y la riqueza relativa de las diferentes  areas. Hemos detectado un claro contraste entre las grandes piscinas de nataci on individuales de las municipalidades ricas del norte y las m as peque~ nas piscinas individuales y piscinas de nataci on comunitaria de los recientemente desarrollados, si bien menos afluentes, enclaves urbanos de la costa sudeste. Palabras clave: consumo, Mediterr aneo, piscinas de nataci on, turismo, agua. U rbanization, especially under its sprawled form, is rapidly changing many traditional environ- ments and societies (European Environment Agency 2006). In Mediterranean areas, low-density urban growth proliferates in the peripheries of traditional compact cities (Salvati and Sabbi 2011) and also in the peripheries of mass tourism enclaves, in this latter case under the so-called form of residential tourism. McWatters (2009) defined residential tourism “as the enduring practices and lifestyles which result from a channelled flow of consumption-led permanent or semi-permanent migration to a particular destination” (3). This concept has been used in Spain since the late 1970s to explain the social, economic, and land changes generated by the increase in two forms of human mobility: tourism and migration (Vera 1987; Huete, Mantec on, and Maz on 2008; Casado 2012). In the Mediterranean, residential tourists have a long tra- dition in certain areas such as the French Cote d’Azur (Fern andez and Barrado 2011), Tuscany and other The Professional Geographer, 0(0) 2016, pages 1–11 © 2016 by American Association of Geographers Initial submission, August 2015; revised submission, November 2015; final acceptance, December 2015. Published by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.