2023-05-17 19:25:37
68% of the water tables are still at “moderately low to very low levels”, according to the latest BRGM report. ARNAUD LE VU/Hans Lucas via AFP
DECRYPTION – Despite heavy rains during the spring, more than two-thirds of the water tables are at very low levels.
For next summer, the games are done. “The recharge season for most groundwater aquifers is over,” says Christophe Poinssot, Deputy Director General of BRGM (Bureau of Geological and Mining Research). Future precipitation will mainly be used for the growth of vegetation, not to supply underground water reserves. And if the rains of the last few weeks have been abundant in some places, they have generally not been enough to rectify the situation of a winter that is too dry for the whole of France.
68% of groundwater levels thus remained below monthly normals in April (a slight improvement compared to the 75% recorded in March) with many sectors showing low to very low levels, according to the BRGM. Although the situation has improved considerably on the Armorican Massif, the Channel coast and the Grand Est aquifers, “it remains critical in the South-East, has worsened in the Rhone corridor” and in the Paris basin…
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