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Regarding the efforts requested, the Minister for the Ecological Transition assured that they would not relate “to individuals alone”.
The government’s plan to improve water managementis closed» and will be presented «next week“, promised Saturday the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu, while France is experiencing a record rain deficit.
«It is complete and I can tell you at this point that it will be presented next week“, declared the minister, guest of France Info and asked about a water plan already announced as imminent and whose presentation is long overdue, without however giving a precise date. Regarding the efforts requested, he assured that they would not carry “not on individuals alone».
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“An agricultural component”
«We have a global subject, yes, we consume 149 liters of drinking water per day and per person. In all of this, there is water that we might not use and there is water that might no longer be drinkable, because it would be rainwater, because it would be grey“, he said. “We are obviously going to move on the authorization, for example, to use the water from your washing machine to go to the bottom of your toilets and prevent it from being drinking water everywhere, which is prohibited the minute you speak“, noted in particular Christophe Béchu, who assured to want”move on the reuse of wastewater».
The minister also underlined that this water plan would include “an agricultural component“, at the very moment when thousands of people are gathered in the department of Deux-Sèvres, to demonstrate against the “basins“, vast reservoirs dedicated to the irrigation of crops, contested in particular by part of the agricultural world. “We know that in terms of samples, sobriety trajectories are needed, there are quality issues“, continued Christophe Béchu, indicating that “56% of our water bodies in France (…) are not in good ecological condition».
«The reality is that of a warming which means that you not only have less water, but you also have soils that are no longer the same, you have temperatures that are no longer the same, that will inevitably push to move part of our production and our agricultural model“said the minister.