1. Water consumption and climate change in mainland France

According to the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB), the average consumption of drinking water per capita per day is 146 liters . The 32 billion cubic meters of freshwater withdrawn in one year correspond to 23 days of rainfall in mainland France. The main uses are for cooling power plants (50%), followed by drinking water production (17%), canal supply (16%), agricultural uses (9%) and industrial uses (8%).

The distribution of abstractions varies across the country, depending on the economic strategy adopted in each region (figure