There were many precedents before Saint-Salon. Water control is a subject of increasing self-determination and increasingly lively conflict between different users: farmers, industrialists, recreationists, environmentalists, etc.
On Saturday 6 November 2021, an irrigation reservoir was thus degraded and emptied in Cram-Chaban, north of Charente-Maritime, by anti-basin protesters. They gathered around the neighboring town of Mauzey-sur-le-Mignon, in Dos-Sèvres, where the pool under construction was guarded by the police.
Legal battles
More recently, in Haute-Savoie, it was the project of an artificial lake, used in particular to fill the snow cannons of La Clouzaz, that crystallized the tension before the courts overturned on Tuesday, October 25. The prefectural decision allowing the start of construction work on the reservoir on this hill has been suspended by the administrative court of Grenoble in order to protect…
Source: Le Figaro
