Question 31874 — water and sanitation

Summary

Ms. Martine Wonner alerts the Minister of Ecological Transition to the pumping of water by the company ARCOS, a concessionary company of the VINCI group, on the GCO construction site during periods of drought. Since the deconfinement, the work of the GCO has resumed at full speed in order to make up for the delay incurred during the period of state of health emergency. Recognition of the state of natural disaster for several municipalities following the drought of 2019, a state of crisis decreed for others, episodes of drought are becoming more commonplace and getting stronger every year. Despite everything, this project continues to draw resources from a territory already weakened by a lack of water. Thus, in the midst of a period of drought, while all the watercourses of the Bas-Rhin have been placed on alert by the services of the Bas-Rhin prefecture since July 23, 2020 and a decree published the same day, prescribes restrictive measures for the use and withdrawal of water, for private, industrial or agricultural uses, ARCOS continues to massively withdraw water from different pumping points along the construction site. The prefecture explains that the “concessionaires constantly water the tracks in order to avoid as much disturbance as possible due to dust”. On August 12, 2020, water restriction measures concern 76 departments and 164 prefectural orders are in progress. The rainfall deficit reached 77% in July 2020 at the national level, 83% in Bas-Rhin and 87% in Haut-Rhin. She asks him how to explain to the French that privileges can be granted to companies while the prescribed measures apply to everyone and that these episodes threaten agriculture, homes, as well as the environment a little more every day. biodiversity.

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