Officials of the previous Mayotte water union on trial in Paris, whereas shortages persist on the island | EUROtoday

In Mayotte, water cuts stay day by day, with faucets operating dry a number of days per week, as a consequence of lack of ample manufacturing for greater than 329,000 inhabitants, 30% of whom should not related to the community. The specter of the nice water disaster of 2023 – throughout which the federal government was compelled to move tens of hundreds of thousands of bottles – by no means leaves our reminiscences, fueling mistrust in the direction of all types of energy.

These common shortages, which dry up total neighborhoods, will inevitably represent the backdrop to the trial of the leaders of the previous intercommunal water and sanitation union of Mayotte (Sieam) and several other enterprise leaders, which opens Monday January 19 for seven days earlier than the Paris judicial court docket. If this disaster was brought on by a historic drought, its influence was undoubtedly aggravated by the negligence, underinvestment and irregularities of this public construction denounced, from 2018, by two experiences and experiences from the regional chamber of accounts of Reunion and Mayotte.

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