Question 18811 — water and sanitation

Summary

Ms. Laure de La Raudière draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, to the subject of the revision of the draft instruction of June 4, 2015 (NOR TREL1904750J), which defines the notion of "territorial project", prior to the financing by water agencies of water storage projects. The episodes of drought and heatwave that have hit the country in recent years, particularly in the summer of 2018, demonstrate that climate change is a potentially significant destabilizing factor for the economy, primarily for agriculture whose activity directly depends on the climate. Water management is therefore a priority challenge in order to ensure French agricultural production for decades to come. However, France has fallen worryingly behind in terms of irrigation. Between 2003 and 2013, the surface area equipped for irrigation in the country stagnated, while it increased by an average of 13.4% at European level. France, although Europe's leading agricultural power, ranks ninth among EU member states. Following the June 2018 report from the expertise unit relating to “quantitative water management to deal with episodes of drought”, the Government has expressed the desire to revise the instruction of June 4, 2015 (NOR TREL1904750J), in order to open up possibilities for financing, among other things, reserves for water storage for irrigation purposes for agriculture. The second phase of the Water Conference, which focused on adaptation to climate change in the last quarter of 2018, also confirmed the urgent need for water storage solutions for agriculture. In this context, in order to meet the strong expectations of farmers lacking water on the land, and thus guarantee food sovereignty in the future, she would like to know if the Government intends to revise the instruction of June 4, 2015, to allow water agencies to finance the creation of new water reserves, in addition to replacement projects. On the other hand, she would like to know if the Government plans to revise the method of calculating “volumes of withdrawable water”, relying less on the volumes collected (mainly during the summer period), to better take into account the potential for sampling the environment during the winter period (period of sampling for storage).

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