“Let’s be serious”: the head of the FNSEA wants the water to be used above all for agriculture

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As France goes through a historic drought, controversy is mounting over the irrigation of golf courses and the filling of swimming pools. “Isn’t eating more important than bathing or playing golf?” asks Christiane Lambert at BFM Business.

“We have never experienced a crisis of such magnitude.” In BFM Business, the president of the FNSEA, the main agricultural federation, takes stock of the current climate situation. “The year 2022 is a historically dramatic year”, explains Christiane Lambert.

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A historic drought that imposes significant water restrictions in several regions. “When there is no water, we understand that there are prohibition orders, instead there must be consultation and obviously in certain departments – I am thinking of Charente-Maritime, in Dordogne where farmers are rising today – things have been done in an authoritarian way” , criticism.

“Be serious”

Above all, the head of the FNSEA believes that priority must be given to agriculture while the controversy over the irrigation of golf courses and the filling of swimming pools grows.

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Author: Thomas LeRoy
Source: BFM TV

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