The Ile-de-France prefecture places Paris on Monday, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne on drought alert. No metropolitan department is therefore spared from the climatic phenomenon.
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Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val de Marne are now on drought alert, the Ile-de-France prefecture announced on Tuesday August 2. It is therefore the whole of metropolitan France which is affected by the drought to varying degrees.
The flow of the Seine has indeed fallen below the threshold set at 81 m³ / s at the Paris-Austerlitz station on July 25, which implies this passage in drought vigilance, specifies the prefecture, which adds in a press release that the interdepartmental order will be taken “very quickly”. Vigilance is the first level of surveillance in the event of drought, before the levels of alert, heightened alert and crisis.
Individuals, companies and communities are therefore invited to limit their water consumption, in particular by avoiding washing cars, reducing domestic use or even limiting the watering of green spaces.