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Water is part of the common heritage. It is a source or a living environment for humans and many animal and plant species and essential for many economic activities. Water resources are limited in quantity, as the droughts of the last few years in particular have shown. Their conservation is a fundamental challenge.
Water is abstracted for a wide variety of uses: drinking, irrigation, energy generation, industrial activities, etc. In addition, aquatic environments are a dumping place for almost all liquid waste from towns, industries and agricultural activities. They are also the subject of development that may disrupt their balance. The challenge, for both France and the world, is to manage human activities and the conservation of water resources in a balanced way, in terms of both quantity and quality.
For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/2010/countries/fr/freshwater-why-care-france or scan the QR code.
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