The song of polluted water

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We have just discovered that residues of a pesticide pollute a good part of the drinking water in France. However, singers have been worried about pollution for a while now. But is that the only reason not to drink water?

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Cascading spring water, water that is becoming scarce...which is polluted. The song has been talking about it for a long time. (MEHMET ALI TURAN / EYEEM / GETTY IMAGES)

In 1992, we may have taken Richard Gotainer for an exaggeratedly pessimistic poet with his song Out of stock, in which he prophesies a planet without spring water. But it’s getting closer: first, the alerts on the lowering of the level in the water tables almost everywhere in France and now – we told you about it this week on France Info – the revelation of the presence of metabolites of chlorothalonil, a pesticide banned since 2019, in at least a third of the water distributed at the tap.

The regulations prohibit the presence of this substance in drinking water but the health authorities want to be reassuring for the moment. And, anyway, our collective consciousness is not particularly open to the idea of ​​drinking water.

In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

  • Richard Gotainer, Out of stock, 1992
  • Jacques Brel, Funeral Tango, 1964
  • Barbara, Absinthe, 1972
  • Jacques Dutronc, The era of nothing, 2003
  • Michel Sardo, The same flowing water, 2004
  • Renaud, corona song, 2020
  • Chris, The Stranger (Water Thief), 2018
  • Henry Salvador, water thieves, 1988
  • Imany, water thieves, 2021
  • MagicSystem, The water will run out 2011


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