Question 19165 — water and sanitation

Summary

Mr. Jean-Luc Lagleize 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 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 and the Haute-Garonne department in particular, the resilience of exploitations with the consequences of climate change inevitably require better management of water resources, through water storage and the construction of structures to respond to climate challenges and preserve the hydrogeological balances of territories. Thus, irrigation is insurance for farmers, for the food security of the territory and for the economic development of farms. agricultural. Furthermore, irrigation is essential for all production, whether in field crops, livestock breeding or market gardening, in conventional or organic agriculture. However, if agriculture has achieved a 30% increase in water productivity in 20 years, thanks to technical and material progress and varietal selections, only 6% of the usable agricultural area is today irrigated in France, the country ranking ninth in Europe. To respond to 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 the Water Agencies of water storage projects, based on the work of the water management expertise unit as well as on the conclusions of the Water Conference. However, the agricultural profession has reported his doubts about the education project, supposed to facilitate and encourage the emergence of resource mobilization projects. She expects a clear commitment from the State regarding the possibility for water agencies to support and help, particularly financially, agricultural or multi-use storage projects. In the current state of the investigation, water agencies will only be able to participate in the co-financing of so-called water projects. substitution. These replacement projects (winter withdrawals replacing summer withdrawals) will not make it possible to meet the needs of the various uses, hence the need to ensure the financing of works which will allow the mobilization of additional volumes and respond to new needs. The modification of the method of calculating withdrawals should also be based on the authorized volumes or at least on the maximum volumes sampled, in order to guarantee sampling flexibility if necessary. Thus, he questions him on the provisions of the draft instruction and more particularly on the possible possibility given to water agencies to finance the creation of reserves beyond substitution and on the modification of the method of calculating withdrawals.

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