A worrying situation. For eight months, the village of Coucouron in Ardèche has had no drinking water, due to drought and a severe lack of rainfall. The springs are almost dry. Not a drop, either, in the reservoir of the municipality, forced to get supplies by tank truck from neighboring villages, revealed The world. Twelve thousand liters delivered for the single day of March 2.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen this,” says Jacques Genest, mayor of the village for thirty years, specifying that the flow rates of the springs have fallen by 67% since July, or even 94% for one of them. ‘between them.
In the region, a dozen municipalities were still facing the same situation in February.