Water is an essential resource for everyone. Its preservation has always been one of the priorities of the Gard Departmental Council which is entering a 2nd phase of consultation on 2024-25 which it has just presented with the vice-president for ecological transition and biodiversity Bérengère Nouguier and the director Nicolas Bouretz. Expected to become scarce, the water resources of the departmental territory must be protected and saved.
The Departmental Council is banking on the desire of stakeholders in each Gard region to build a new strategy for adapting to climate change. This phase should make it possible to bring out elements of response and solutions to the crucial question of water management, while avoiding a
maladaptation. Thanks to its technical or financial support, it wants to help ensure that Gard benefits from quality water. Water for all, sustainably and better preserved, this is the challenge that the Gard Departmental Council wishes to take on in the next five years. “The objective is to anticipate so as not to suffer” according to the president of the Gard Departmental Council.
A proactive and innovative approach
We are entering the 2nd phase. “Let's prepare for the future” consists of providing elements of foresight to those involved in water, regional planning, the Gard economic sectors and citizens and to reflect together on the changes imposed by global warming in the occupation of soils, drinking water supply, agriculture, tourism linked to aquatic environments, forests and landscapes.
From June 10 to 27, 2024, 7 territorial meetings allowed a presentation of the diagnosis to more than 260 participants including 27% citizens, 24% water stakeholders and 21% elected officials. More than 2,300 contributions have been identified and via the site eauclimat.gard.fr, 183 new contributions. Participatory animation should lead to the emergence of visions of adaptation for water resource management. Following this, a restitution forum is planned for June 2025, the Departmental Council will have an action plan. The main thing is to maintain the functionality of natural environments, to bring the territory to seize solutions. The evolution of temperatures will be +4 degrees by 2100, this should bring us towards temperatures experienced by the Maghreb countries and by 2050 we would be in the situation of
country of Andalusia. There is real concern for the future.
Four meetings are scheduled for Monday, November 25 at 6 p.m. for the Grand Combe (Marcel Pagnol room), November 29 at 6 p.m. at Pont-du-Gard in the right bank auditorium, December 3 at 6 p.m. in the Vigan college auditorium André Chamson and on December 4 at 6 p.m. in Nîmes at the departmental archives. Following these meetings where the territories will bring up solutions and propose what would be best adapted for the different territories, a synthesis will be made and will enrich the site. A forum will be set up in June 2025 to continue the process and even determine a more ambitious action plan within a common vision.
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