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Tuesday, August 2, the hot weather hit France. The entire metropolitan territory has been placed on drought alert.
She had been spared so far. Tuesday, August 2, 2022, the Seine shows a water level not high enough to preserve the ecosystem. A rare phenomenon, Paris and the inner suburbs join the whole of France and go into drought vigilance. For the moment, Ile-de-France residents do not have a strict obligation to save water. They did, however, receive recommendations. In particular, it is necessary to reduce the watering schedules, for example.
“The water restriction means that we have less time to water”, explains a farmer. Result ? “We will not be able to water all the crops, so we will have to sacrifice some”, he laments. In a few weeks, the drought has spread throughout the metropolis. This is a historic situation since now, in some municipalities, it is completely forbidden to water.
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