Nancy
Nicknamed
"the water tower of Lorraine"
, the Vosges massif fears the weather forecasts which announce a hotter and drier than normal summer.
The rains that usually beat its peaks run off its western slope, to feed the course of the Moselle, a tributary of the Rhine, where Greater Nancy captures the drinking water consumed by its 780,000 inhabitants and where the Cattenom nuclear power plant, north of Metz, draws cooling water from its four reactors.
The mid-mountain towns sitting on this heap of blue gold are also impacted by the rise in temperatures.
“Precipitation volumes are not in question.
They remain stable at the scale of the Rhine-Meuse basin between the reference periods 1970-1990 and 2000-2019.
On the other hand, the temperatures have increased by 1.7°C over this same interval”
, analyzes Didier François, research engineer at the Loterr geography laboratory at the University of Lorraine.
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