Question 19026 — water and sanitation

Summary

Ms. Blandine Brocard draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, to 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. Faced with recurring episodes of drought and heatwaves which hit the country, the resilience of farms in the face of the consequences of climate change will inevitably require better management of water resources. The delay taken by France in terms of irrigation is worrying. Between 2003 and 2013, the area equipped for irrigation in the country stagnated while the European average increased by 13.4%. With only 6% of the useful agricultural area irrigated, France now ranks 9th in Europe, behind the Mediterranean countries, but also northern countries like Denmark and the Netherlands. Faced with this delay, the Government recently undertook to revise the instruction of June 4, 2015, which defines the notion of “territorial project”, prior to the financing by water agencies of water storage projects. Given the expectations of farmers and the collective capacity to guarantee France's food sovereignty in the future, she asks him if this project instruction will give water agencies the possibility of financing reserve creation beyond substitution and whether the modification of the method of calculating withdrawals will be based on the authorized volumes or at least on the maximum volumes withdrawn.

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