Pollution: in Loire-Atlantique, elected officials on a crusade for drinking water
By Rémi Barbet , special correspondent in Machecoul-Saint-Même (Loire-Atlantique)
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Céline Vinet, market gardener in Machecoul-Saint-Même. Thomas Louapre / Divergence for La Croix
The Machecoul-Saint-Même water table has not been drinkable for decades, a victim of the intensive use of pesticides in market gardening. To remedy this, elected officials have signed a manifesto calling for their ban around catchment areas.
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I subscribeIn Machecoul-Saint-Même (Loire-Atlantique), water is everywhere, but nowhere is it drinkable. The town of 7,500 inhabitants nevertheless has an abundant hydrographic network: to the north, the Tenu River flows into the Loire; to the south, the Falleron, a small coastal river, feeds the Breton-Vendée Marshes. But underground, the water from the water table has been declared undrinkable for about twenty years.
"The intensification of market gardening practices is the main reason for the pollution of our groundwater," says Laurent Robin, a non-partisan mayor. First elected in Machecoul-Saint-Même in 2020, the 65-year-old laments his town's "vulnerability" in the face of the degradation of aquatic environments.
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