On average, in July, France experienced a rainfall deficit of around 84%. Low rainfall which, in a context of high temperatures and with low reserves of water stored in the groundwater, plunged the country into an episode on the way to becoming historic.
This summer, mainland France is hot. Its soils are also increasingly thirsty. While the country experienced, in the first week of August, its third heat wave since June, drought struck, to varying degrees, throughout the territory. Faced with what she described as “exceptional drought” and the “historic situation that many territories are going through”, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne activated the interministerial crisis unit on Friday August 5. “This drought is the most serious ever recorded in our country” and “the situation could continue over the next 15 days, or even become even more worrying”, underlines Matignon.
More than 100 municipalities deprived of drinking water, increasing restrictions on water use, dying vegetation, worried farmers… This episode, which could last, has serious consequences, both on the environment and the economy. Franceinfo gives you the keys to understanding this extraordinary phenomenon.
How did we get here ?
To understand the origin of the drought we are experiencing at the beginning of August, we have to go back several months in…
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