Every year, climate change is impacting more and more river levels and water cycles.
📷 The river Loire dried out last summer.
In France, the industrial agro-business is stealing underground water: they pump it into private ponds, the "mega-bassines".
We already have solutions to adapt our food production system to the impacts of climate change.
But privatizing water ain't one of them.
👉 Article from @BonPote in 🇫🇷.
bonpote.com/les-mega-bassi…
This weekend, I'm in #SainteSoline where farmers and activists are joining forces to oppose the privatization of water for the few.
Get ready for a wild ride 🧵
#NoBassaran
The activists have teamed up with a farmer to secretly plan a legal camp !
#NoBassaran
Hundreds of people are joining !!
Day 1 was 🔥
How it started / How it's going
Farmers and activists defending water.
#NoBassaran 💧
✊ #NoBassaran
with @PartagerCSympa
There are people all the way to the horizon.
#SainteSoline
Protesters against the privatization of water.
We're heading to the #Mégabassines, where the agro-industrial lobbies are stealing ground water.
The mood is great, this is a symbolic action to show our support to farmers for a more reasonable, healthier, agriculture.
#SainteSoline
30,000 people are demonstrating peacefully to oppose the agro-industrial lobby.
Here's one group, the "blue finger", departing from the camp.
#NoBassaran
Great mood, people are carrying a big wooden bird sculpture, many are singing !
Even the Mud wizard from #Luetzerath is here !
🧙@MonchLutzi
When the first group arrived near the #megabassines, this happened:
Tear gas started falling off the sky.
Tear gas was shot by police on quads, to prevent people from approaching the #megabassines.
These attacks from the police were totally unnecessary and unjustified.
#megabassines #SainteSoline
Many families, children and elderly people were protesting peacefully when this happened.
#megabassines
Finally we're arriving at the #megabassines.
The scale is unbelievable.
Agro-industrial lobbies
want to pump (steal)
650 000 m3 of ground water
into this #megabassines
😱
No comment
An independent reporter is shot with a grenade.
Look at the scale of this 🤯
#megabassines #SainteSoline
Most people who travelled here didn't expect such violence.
#SainteSoline
So after such brutal and unjustified assault of protesters from the police, some blackbock responded.
It did NOT go well for the Police vehicles.
So much waste.
#SainteSoline
The war of water.
La Bataille des Méga-Bassines : Qui veut la Guerre de l'Eau ?
Version longue:
Deuxième journée de mobilisation à #SainteSoline
Version longue:
The amount of resources wasted on Police repression was totally unnecessary:
The #megabassines (behind the smoke) are just a hole in the ground.
Macron's behavior has set most cities in France on fire with the #ReformeDesRetraites 🔥
Macron is now setting the countryside on fire.
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