“Anticipate!” Launches the Minister of Ecological Transition to the prefects

The Minister for Ecological Transition calls on the prefects to “anticipate” drought and “take measures that now allow you to save water”in an interview with JDD, Sunday, February 26. Christophe Béchu will receive on Monday “the prefects who coordinate the seven major basins of the territory” And “[verra] Ie Monday following all the prefects”. He intends to send them this recommendation: “If we must now take restriction orders to ensure that the water resource is preserved for this summer, take them..

Visiting the Agricultural Show on Saturday, Emmanuel Macron has already called for a “sobriety plan” for water, on the model of the “energy sobriety”. “We know that we will be confronted as we were last summer with problems of scarcity [d’eau] : rather than organizing under duress at the last moment with conflicts of use, we must plan all that”said the head of state.

An interministerial cell activated in March

France recorded 32 days without real rain between January and February, a new historic record, according to Météo France. “The situation is more serious than last year at the same time and we are two months late in recharging groundwater, emphasizes Christophe Béchu. We are therefore in anticipation, already in a state of alert.

The Minister for the Ecological Transition specifies that the Prime Minister “will activate an interministerial unit responsible for anticipating the risks and measures to be taken in the event of drought”, “from the first half of March”. “It is a historically early date which is in line with the water stress we are experiencing”he insists.