Small single-source communes run out of drinking water in drought
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Villages supplied by one well or spring are the first to fail in drought. In summer 2022 more than 100 French communes had drinking water trucked in and over 1,000 took exceptional supply measures; some Pyrenées-Orientales villages later spent months on bottled water.
#00186Interconnect small networks, cut leaks and secure backup sources before crisis
Physically link neighboring communal water networks, repair leaking rural pipes, and pre-identify backup sources so no small commune depends on a single vulnerable well or spring. In France, financed via agences de l'eau and départements, typically carried by intercommunal syndic
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