The region, which borders Spain, has been one of the worst affected by a winter drought that has seen local rainfall at about half of its normal level, according to the national weather office.
Another four French villages lost their fresh water supply on Friday, local authorities told AFP, as a winter drought causes disruption and serious concerns about shortages this summer.
As well as the Pyrenees, other French villages in the southern Ardeche, Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dome regions have suffered water supply problems this winter. Another well used by local farmers is being tested, but in the meantime local authorities have stockpiled enough bottled water for 10 days. Although above-average rains fell nationally in March, an estimated 75 percent of French groundwater sources are at moderately low or very low levels, according the state-run French Geological Survey on Thursday."The situation is rather worrying because almost all of France is affected and we are experiencing one dry year after another," Violaine Bault, a BRGM hydrologist, said on Thursday.
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