As of March 1, 46% of the water tables are above monthly normals and 36% remain below. In February, a month that was very wet in places, the recharges were “heterogeneous” The rains that fell in recent weeks “probably had difficulty infiltrating deeply through soils with little humidity” In 2023, after another very hot summer, two thirds of the metropolitan departments were still experiencing a “drought crisis” leading to significant restrictions on water use.