Partial New-Aquitaine: Municipalities concerned by one or more priority catchments — Common perimeters (surface)

This dataset contains the municipalities concerned by one or more priority catchments, in the Aquitaine — Limousin — Poitou-Charentes region.

PLEASE NOTE: this dataset is not complete on the perimeter of New Aquitaine, it concerns the former Aquitaine region.

Spread across France, the “priority captures” were identified through a local consultation process, based on three criteria:
— the state of the resource vis-à-vis diffuse pollution (mainly nitrates and pesticides),
— the strategic nature of the resource
— the will to regain some abandoned captures.

A priority abstraction may be made up of several water collection structures (catching field): the term therefore refers to a drinking water abstraction territory rather than a single point.