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7. Water management in France
French water consumption is 16 billion m 3 /year, divided equally between drinking water, watering, agricultural irrigation and industry (excluding energy).
France, a temperate country, has very substantial resources overall, yet two-thirds of the country is affected by water restrictions in summer . Annual precipitation amounts to 512 billion m 3 , 61% of which evaporates via the soil and plants, 23% feeds the 200 exploitable underground aquifers with a volume of 2,000 billion m 3 , and 16% reaches the 270,000 km of our rivers, which have a flow of 170 billion m...
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Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 23, 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (Official Journal L 327 of December 22, 2000).
Directive (EU) no. 2020/2184 of December 16, 2020 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (OJEU no. L 435 of December 23, 2020).
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