Toulouse: two golf courses vandalized to protest against their water consumption during the drought
Kirikou wanted to mark the occasion. On the night of Wednesday August 10 to Thursday August 11, several people from this environmental defense collective will have canceled themselves within the grounds of two private golf courses located in Toulouse, report France 3 Occitania, Thursday, August 11. Their objective ? Alert on the waste of water in times of drought. For this, after breaking in, the environmental activists would have blocked the holes of the courses and damaged the lawn.
Signs and inscriptions were also installed on the vandalized sites. “This hole drinks 277,000 liters of water a day, do you drink that much?”, Can we read on one of them which was relayed on Twitter. In a context of drought, “the watering of the greens, courses and departures of golf courses is authorized by derogation due to the cost of maintenance of these very luxurious grounds”, explained the Kirikou collective in a press release.
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“We wanted to denounce the recommendations noted by some. In particular sports equipment, while the use of water is under restriction”, he continued. “We do not understand the priority data for the use of water.” Currently, the majority of the Haute-Garonne department is placed on heightened drought alert. The authorities therefore had to take measures to restrict the use of water. For a time, golf courses were exempt.
“These are people who are not well informed about our water consumption,” said Nicolas Astier, the director of one of the vandalized golf courses, who deplored the damage committed, to AFP. He plans to file a complaint. “We only water the greens, it’s an area that is only half of a football pitch,” he defended himself. By specifying: “We have been paying attention to our water consumption for two months.” For its part, the Kirikou collective assured our colleagues that it knew “the legal risks that this entails since it is a question of damage to private property”.
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