The sobriety plan on the water will be published "
in a few days
" and will be "
very complete
", promised this Saturday the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu, against the backdrop of a record rain deficit in France.
This plan, requested by President Emmanuel Macron on February 25 during a visit to the Agricultural Show, “
is ready, it has been finalized
”, declared Christophe Béchu, guest of TV5Monde.
This plan “
is very complete, it includes around fifty measures, it deals with sobriety, quantity, quality, financial means, governance
”, added the minister, without going into details.
If he alluded to a few leads, he did not specify whether these measures would be coercive or incentive.
"
We must fight against all types of waste including leaks
", "
pay attention to the duration of a shower, to the way in which we let a certain number of taps run
", he indicated.
He also mentioned "
transition models on the industrial and agricultural levels
" and the need to "
look at the sources of water that we have forgotten are available to us
", namely "
wastewater, gray and even rainwater
.
Six departments in the south of the country have already been placed on partial drought alert, an exceptional situation so early in the year.
