Saints
To repair the damage,
“the unit of measurement will be the million euros”
, calculates Arnaud Charpentier, the president of the Syndicat mixte Vendée Sèvre Autizes (SmVSA).
Two water storage reserves belonging to this organization were vandalized on the night of August 8 to 9 in Nalliers and Pouillé, two towns located in Vendée.
These "basins", which draw on groundwater, mainly in winter, irrigate crops in summer, when there is a shortage of water.
This department had never experienced such acts, unlike its neighbors in Deux-Sèvres and Charente-Maritime, where the basins arouse very strong opposition.
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This Vendée operation was claimed on Wednesday by an anonymous email.
"We put on gloves and masked our faces, we took pliers and knives, and we removed the tarp which covered two mega basins"
, write there
"gardeners, fishermen and lovers of waterways".
These substitute reserves…
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