No sign of rain

[Rochej]

If it does not rain or not enough, 110 000 people could be deprived of water mid-october. Le prefect tightens restrictions - it is now forbidden to water lawns.

To explain the new restrictions it has ordered this week, the prefect, Thierry Lataste, said that low water reserves in the Vendee is a worrying situation: "the north-west of the department has only a few weeks of reserves since the dams that feed it, at Apremont and Jaunay, are only 28% of their capacity. "

The Vendee needs at least four days of good rain ro replenish stocks.