Water wastage in Geneva – Watering at noon? The Canton appeals to common sense

– Watering at noon? The Canton appeals to common sense

As drought rages, blue gold is sometimes wasted.

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Posted today at 8:04 p.m.

While the heat wave and the drought weigh down this beginning of August, it is impossible to measure the waste of blue gold.

24HOURS/ODILE MEYLAN

Lawns watered between noon and two under a blazing sun? This is what a reader of the “Tribune de Genève” was moved by on Tuesday about certain private residences in the Petit-Saconnex region. Contacted, the director general of the cantonal water office says that he had to circumvent, this Wednesday morning, a sidewalk copiously watered by an incorrectly regulated jet. “You don’t need to be an authority to notice that some fellow citizens lack common sense!” adds Gilles Mulhauser.

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