It is a device that is in line with Emmanuel Macron's statement this summer.
Following the waves of heat wave, the Head of State then reported
"
a great upheaval
"
and announced "
the end of abundance
".
Using this same terminology, the Minister for Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, announced that, within "
a few days
", a water plan would be presented.
“
It is ready, it is complete and includes around fifty measures
,”
said the Minister for Ecological Transition on TV5Monde, Saturday March 11.
“
It deals with sobriety, it deals with quantity, it deals with quality, it deals with financial means and governance
: on all these points, we must be able to move.
»
Reuse of wastewater, everyday actions...
While the country has experienced 32 days without rain - a historic record according to Météo-France - the subject is more important than ever.
So much, moreover, that it will be up to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, directly responsible for ecological planning, to present this water plan, affirms those around her at Le Figaro
.
Laconic, Christophe Béchu has so far only outlined the general thoughts that have fueled this new device.
The objective, he announced at the end of January to Le
Parisien
, is above all to
"
improve the quantity and quality of available water"
as well as
"
crisis management
".
The Minister for Ecological Transition also insisted on TV5Monde on the necessary fight
"against all types of waste",
evoking the importance of daily gestures:
"
The fact of not paying attention to the duration of a shower , the way we let a certain number of taps run
”,
he had listed.
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“
A French person consumes 149
liters of drinking water per day and per person
: we have so much water that we have ended up forgetting that, at the bottom of our toilets, we have drinking water
”,
deplores Christophe Bechu.
More broadly, the tenant of the Hôtel de Roquelaure stresses the importance of looking for
"
transition models
"
on
"the industrial and agricultural level",
while recalling the importance of studying
"
the water sources from which we have forgotten that they are at our disposal
: waste water, gray water and rainwater
".
A “sobriety plan on the water”
While walking the aisles of the Agricultural Show last February, Emmanuel Macron also mentioned the implementation of a
"
sobriety plan on the water
"
:
"
We know that we will be confronted, as we were last summer, to problems of water scarcity
: rather than organizing under duress at the last moment with conflicts of use, we have to plan all that
, "
he said. declared.
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"
The nation of France must better reuse its water, better harvest rainwater, it must have fewer leaks in its water networks, which is a huge investment," continued
the
president.
Before calling
"
to be more careful
",
evoking the possibility of adapting the
"
share of effort
"
of each
"
according to the evolution of the water tables
".
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