Golf courses are one green area that is subject to the national water prohibition, despite the fact that approximately 100 French communities lack access to clean drinking water.
However, local Extinction Rebellion affiliates in Toulouse have filled the golf holes with cement to ensure that golfers in France continue to suffer.
Courses in the cities of Vieille-Toulouse and Blagnac were the focus of Extinction Rebellion.
The announcement comes amid concerns that, as a result of a combination of heatwaves and an extended lack of rain, about half of the EU’s territory is presently under a drought warning or worse.
According to the BBC, the organisation referred to golf as the “leisure business of the most fortunate” and said that “commercial craziness takes precedent over ecological rationality.”
Regional authorities in France have the option to enforce the restriction. However, one gold course has already turned off course.
In certain locations, French citizens are unable to wash their vehicles or water their gardens due to water restrictions.
The western French town of Ille-et-Villaine prohibited watering its golf fields, violating the exception.
According to Gérard Rougier of the French Golf Federation, “a golf course without a green is like an ice rink without ice.”
Following the discovery of an 85% decrease in rainfall, France declared a state of crisis.
According to the national meteorological service, this spring was the third driest on record for the nation, behind only 2011 and 1976, as stated by France24.
The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America in the US estimates that during the summer, golf courses may consume up to 173 million litres of water each day.
According to the UK’s Environmental Agency, the typical home consumes 349 litres of water each day.
Parts of France are becoming more vulnerable to flames as a result of the unusually dry weather.
The southwest region of the nation is now experiencing a wildfire outbreak that has forced tens of thousands of residents to leave their homes.
The government has warned that the nation is experiencing its worst drought on record as France is now experiencing its fourth hot wave of the year.
The country is anticipated to experience a heat wave over the weekend, according to Meteo France, the national meteorological organisation. The heat wave started in the south.
The southern part of France should anticipate daytime highs of up to 40 degrees Celsius and nighttime lows of no lower than 20 degrees Celsius.
France has been obliged to request assistance from across Europe to combat a massive wildfire that has been burning in the country’s south for more than a month.
France has requested that hundreds of firemen go to Gironde, close to Bordeaux, from Germany, Poland, Romania, and Italy.
They contributed to the suppression of an early July conflagration that drove 10,000 people from their homes and destroyed 7,000 hectares of pine forest.
In France’s Burgundy area, where the Tille River formerly flowed through the town of Lux, dead fish blanket the broad trench that runs through rows of trees as a result of the ongoing drought.
The market’s concerns about the world supply as a result of disruption in Ukraine, a key grain exporter, have increased owing to the dry weather in France, the largest grain producer in the European Union.
India has already prohibited wheat exports due to a heat wave that is damaging its harvests.