The rains in March do not help. The situation is "still worrying" in several French departments, alarmed Météo France, at the end of an exceptionally dry winter. Nationwide, rainfall was 15% higher in September, but experienced a large deficit of -35% the following October.

If the months of November, December and January "were relatively close to normal", the rain did not fall on the country for 32 days (between January 21 and February 21). This is the longest streak of consecutive days without precipitation. In February, the deficit was -75%.

The phenomenon affects not only the France but the whole world. "Vampiric" humanity is depleting "drop after drop" the planet's water resources, the UN warned before the start on Wednesday (March 22nd) of a conference to try to meet the needs of billions of people, in danger in the face of an "imminent" global water crisis.

"Vampiric overconsumption and overdevelopment, unsustainable exploitation of water resources, pollution and uncontrolled global warming are depleting, drop after drop, this source of life of humanity," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the foreword to a report published a few hours before the UN Water Conference. unseen for nearly half a century. "Humanity has blindly embarked on a perilous path," he said. And "we all suffer the consequences".

A worrying situation that the cartoonist Urbs has chosen to treat with humor. Born in Limoges in 1970, Rodolphe, alias Urbs, is a cartoonist. He draws for the newspapers Le Résistant, Sud-Ouest, Dazibao, and Le Canard enchaîné and belongs to the collective of cartoonists "Cartooning for peace".

Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.

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