Colmar calls on the population and restaurateurs to save its flowers
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The city is particularly known for its floral heritage, in danger due to high temperatures and lack of water.
Faced with watering bans linked to the drought, the mayor of the very touristy town of Colmar on Thursday encouraged the population and restaurateurs to water the planters and flower beds in public spaces themselves, even if it means resorting to “carafe bottom“, a “citizen way to respond to administrative absurdity“.
“I invite Colmar residents and in particular restaurant owners to pour all unpolluted recovery water (water from ice buckets, carafe bottoms, vegetable washing water, for example) into the nearest planters and flower beds.“Wrote Éric Straumann (LR) in a post published on his Facebook account.
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300 planters at risk
The city has enjoyed since last year the label “Golden flower», a distinction rewarding less than a dozen towns in France, for the high quality of their flowers. But Colmar is also one of the municipalities concerned by the decree issued by the prefect of Haut-Rhin Louis Laugier on August 3 to limit water consumption in the department, to which the city had to comply.
Last week, the first magistrate tried to obtain a derogation from the prefecture to continue to water its more than 300 planters and not to compromise the “investments in labor and plants» and in defense of a «economic sector already affected by the COVID crisis“. But the “meeting of the water resources committee which was held this (Thursday) morning did not allow progress to be made on the subject“said Éric Straumann in his message on social networks. Denouncing “the absurdity of regulation“, the mayor cited the example of a municipality bordering Colmar, supplied “by the same well» and where watering is still permitted.
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“I remind you that flowers also contribute to an ecosystem and to the presence of bees“, also argued Éric Straumann to AFP, referring to the progress made in recent years in terms of water-efficient irrigation. “We need 15 cubic meters of water a day, it’s nothing for a city of 70,000 inhabitants“, he said again. Contacted by AFP, the Haut-Rhin prefecture indicated that it was not able to confirm this information immediately.
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