Case of study around the problematic of water as a common good: Caussade Lake

Abstract

Our article is about conflicts of water use, a precious common good, we put the emphasis on Caussade lake, built in 2019, where multiple actors such as farmers, but also political authorities and ecologists, fought during the construction. In a time when the conflict of use is violent in the region of Les Deux-Sèvres, we wanted to highlight European and French laws to put them against the Caussade Lake project, illegally built by farmers. Beyond this local conflict, it is about questioning the place of water as a common good and all the conflicts about this rare and precious delicacy.