It is easier to imagine water battles far from home, in desert regions.
But with global warming, this resource is generating tensions within our own borders, around lakes, rivers or hydraulic dams, for agriculture, tourism, drinking water, electricity production or even the cooling of nuclear reactors.
“The drought this year is clearly remarkable, observes Florence Habets, hydroclimatologist and research director at the CNRS.
Soil moisture is at its lowest in sixty years.
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