In all cases, “restrictions on water use for agricultural, industrial or individual activities would then be probable on almost all of the territory, as in 2022”, underlines the High Commission, summoning the memory of a memorable drought, marked by water restrictions in a mess. “The tension relating to consumption (part of the samples which is not returned in the middle) could be strong in the Southwest and the Southeast, due to the large part of the water consumed, in particular due to the irrigation of cultures”, underlines the report.
Around a summer without water?
The institution had published in April 2024 a cartography of the samples and last January a study on the evolution of consumption. She confronted this data based on a study led by the National Institute for Research for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), explores 2, on the evolution of the availability of water resources, made public last year.
If France does not modify its practices in water management or the latest measures it implemented, in August, in the heart of summer, “we have almost 90 % of the travelers who are affected by a degradation of the water situation between 2020 and 2050,” said Hélène Arambourou, co-author of the note. In the rupture scenario, “this degradation of the water situation occurs in approximately half of the larger basins,” she added.
