Thousands of people demonstrated Saturday against the sixteen “megabassines” project intended to irrigate agricultural land. One of the books was partly deteriorated.
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Thousands of people – 3,000 according to the organizers, “a little over 1,500” for the prefecture – demonstrated in Mauzé-sur-le-Cute (Deux-Sèvres) on Saturday 6 November, against a project of Construction of sixteen “megabassines” for irrigation. At the beginning of September, the work to dig the first of them, near the village, set fire to the powders, the opponents judging the illegal shipyard. These reserves are intended to allow, according to the words of Thierry Budaud, President of the Water Coop, project manager, the water supply of “450 irrigants”. With a goal of end of the work in 2026.
The imposing crater of what is called a “substitute reserve” is already completed, while the Administrative Court of Poitiers rejected, on 27 May, nine of the sixteen basins, arguing of their excessive size. An insufficient decision for a dozen associations that appealed judgment, denouncing “bad information of the public”, the “oversize” of all planned works, the “impacts on land circles, especially habitats and Protected or even threatened species like the Canepetière bustard “…
For opponents, Saturday’s manifestation had to be a major action. In the lightning crowd, the flags of all colors testified to the diversity of the organizations and associations present, from ATTAC to the association of support for the victims of pesticides of the West, as well as the imagination of the participants who had made Their pancards, “Bassin’s Creed”, “Water Apocalypse”, “water rage, water despair” …
At the heart of the mobilization, the question of the agricultural model and the preservation of the biodiversity. “I am here to defend the soils and water, and an agriculture in the opposite of the current model”, ADVANCE MOON (a borrowing name), a 29-year-old woman, builder in the building, coming from Paris , who chose to become “activist”, moving from struggle in struggle, zad zad [zone to defend], silver mask on the face and all of blue clothed, like many protesters dressed with blouses, blouses of the same color, according to the instructions given by the organizers.
“Mauzé on basins”
Pascale Pavageau, she, does not wear blue but her tricolor scarf of assistant (without label) to the mayor, in La Rochelard, small town of 580 inhabitants who adjoins Mauzé. “We voted a motion against these basins in the spring of 2020 [about forty communes did the same] because we are against this infrastructure that will benefit some, while it is funded in part by public funds. And, Contrary to what we have been told, they will not fill up with rainwater but by boreholes, samples in the water table “, is indignant the elected 58 years.
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