Before being an eighteen-hole golf course, perhaps one day, and an urbanized area of 600 housing units which will overlook Lake Villeneuve-de-la-Raho (Pyrénées-Orientales), hoping that it will not be dry, it is a climatic battlefield of 180 ha.
It has been cleared since January and fenced off with large fluorescent orange banners whose plastic disintegrates in the Tramontana.
The project is old and chaotic.
It dates from 2003 and was the subject of the signing of a declaration of public utility by the prefect Philippe Chopin in 2019 at a time when the lack of water was still an aperitif joke.
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In February 2024, we no longer laugh.
The department is in the process of desertification due to lack of rain.
There could be a shortage of water before summer for the daily lives of many: farmers, tourist operators, individuals.
Scientists from the University of Perpignan are protesting against this anachronistic project whose greens will turn to dust.
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