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What could be more normal than opening the tap to drink, prepare meals, do the dishes or the laundry, have a wash, flush the toilets, clean the house or even water the plants and wash the car ? These are certainly automatic activities of daily life that we hardly pay any more attention to.
Let us imagine a scenario where water stops running as it usually does, where the flow is reduced, where the precious liquid becomes coloured, cloudy, smelly… Each in their own way, everyone will become aware of their respective needs for water and will give it a particular value.
The University of Arizona and the CNRS have come together around a joint international unit : "Water, Environment and Public Policy", with a special focus on the subject of water through socio-economic, spatial, environmental or chemical issues.
Consumption varies with the region, the environment (rural or urban), the type of housing (house or flat), but also with the seasons, the quality of the resource, the needs and the individual or collective practices [1]. Barely out of the tap after travelling through the meanders of the distribution system, water is faced with a dual fate : it goes straight to the sewage or it is collected to satisfy one of its many domestic uses. The water cycle is in motion…
Unité mixte internationale, « Water, environment and public policy », CNRS
[1] The average consumption is 200 litres of water per day per person in Europe, while it is 300 in North America and 20 in sub-Saharan Africa. In France, the average is 160 litres.
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