While the heat wave arrives this Thursday in France, the Bourgogne Franche-Comté region is already affected by drought. The Territory of Belfort thus took measures on Wednesday to restrict the use of water. The department only follows the Saône-et-Loire, the Côte-d'Or, the Yonne, the Doubs and the Haute-Saône, which suffer from high temperatures and "weak episodes of rain" which lead to the drop. the level of watercourses and the drying out of soils, according to their prefectures.
The Saône-et-Loire and the Côte-d'Or in crisis
In the Territory of Belfort, the measure was taken "for a period of two months". Particularly affected by the drought, several sectors of Saône-et-Loire and Côte-d'Or have been declared in a “crisis” situation by their respective prefecture. Only domestic uses are thus authorized in these sectors, in particular those priority sectors responding to health, public sanitation, civil security and the drinking water supply of the population.
"The drought persists throughout the department, with a deterioration in particular in the Morvan", indicated the prefecture of Saône-et-Loire. Since the beginning of the year, "the equivalent of a month of rain has been missing" in the west of Haute-Saône, specifies the prefecture, which on Monday took a water restriction stop "to preserve [the ] water resources and prevent any shortage ”. The weekend which promises to be very hot should not help.
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