Drought: why we will have to continue to save water

Florence Denier-Pasquier lives on the banks of the Loire south of Angers (Maine-et-Loire).

In the photo she took from her house on Thursday, the main arm of the river now looks like nothing more than a thin stream surrounded by sandbars.

"I've never seen it like this for 25 years," says the administrator of the France Nature Environnement (FNE) association.

The drought has reached such a point that in Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique, downstream of the river, the water restriction orders have been extended.

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