Question 19500 — water and sanitation

Summary

Mr. Jean-Jacques Gaultier 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 hitting the country, the resilience of farms facing the consequences of change climate 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 ninth at European level, behind the Mediterranean countries, 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 of water storage projects by water agencies. Considering the expectations of farmers and their collective capacity to guarantee French food sovereignty in the future, he asks if this project instruction will give water agencies the possibility of financing the creation of water reserves beyond substitution and if 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of the method of calculating withdrawals, will be based on the authorized volumes or at least on the maximum volumes withdrawn.

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