We must “be able to store water in winter”, maintains the Minister of Agriculture. Marc Fesneau considered reviewing the law on water, in order to store what could be stored in winter “to use it in summer” “The water law dates from 1992, at a time when climate change was not as significant as it is today.

Don’t we need to better integrate climate change into our water policy?” he asks. The Confédération paysanne, the 3rd agricultural union in France, regretted that “not a word” had been said “on the preservation and sharing of water”