In France, numerous drinking water leaks due to an aging network

In Savoie, a few kilometers from the resort of Menuiresinvestigations begin to locate a water leak. A water pipe is installed six meters underground. Nicholas neyretleak hunter for Suez, has been surveying several hundred meters since the morning of Thursday August 11. After several hours of research, he locates the leak near a collection point. This is relief: she corresponds “about a consumption of 700 inhabitants for one day”.

The leak was spotted the day before, 200 km away, in a control center in the Lyon suburbs (Rhone). Controllers monitor the network in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region 24 hours a day. A hundred alarms are triggered every day. To Menuiresthe mayor of Belleville (Savoy)Claude Jay, came to the news. Water is an even more important issue in times of drought. The municipality has set an ambitious objective for the operator managing its network: 5% maximum leakage. At the national level, 20% of the volume of drinking water is lost due to leaks in the network.