Almost 70% of French territory is subject to water use restrictions, due to increasingly severe drought, worsened by repeated heat waves affecting the country for months.
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The data comes from the Ministry for Ecological Transition, which announced it has called a crisis meeting for Wednesday, August 12.
“The effects of climate change continue to increase tensions on water resources” and “almost 70% of French territory is subject to water use restrictions,” the ministry said.
As of August 9, all 99 departments (the equivalent of Italian provinces) of metropolitan France were at least at the vigilance level.
Of these, 67 were classified in crisis situation (the highest level) and another 21 in reinforced alert.
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