Is this a situation described as “historic”?
“More than a hundred municipalities in France today no longer have drinking water,” said the Minister for Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, on Friday during a visit to the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. .
In these municipalities, specified the minister, “there are supplies which are made with drinking water trucks which one conveys (…) since there is nothing any more in the pipes”.
“The whole challenge is to tighten a certain number of restrictions to avoid getting there”.
"Elisabeth Borne's words are very clear: a historic drought", hammered the minister, traveling to Roumoules, in the heart of a lavender farm.
Friday morning, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne activated the interministerial crisis unit, which is to meet during the day, faced with the “historic situation that many territories are going through”, announced Matignon.
Christophe Béchu pleaded, in the territories which are experiencing "protracted water deficits", to "anticipate": "if you have to go and provide water, you should not worry about it in the morning when there is no more water in the pipes”.
"The difficulty in terms of logistics and transport is not the same" according to the municipalities, underlined the minister, depending on whether it is a mountain municipality, a large or a small one. agglomeration.
After the Roumoules lavender farm, Christophe Béchu must go, accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneaux, to the Colostre stream, where he will discuss the issues of drought and biodiversity.
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