French environmental groups protest exemption from cement water supply restrictions on golf course cups | Reuters

Environmental group Extinction Rebellion Toulouse protested by filling green cups with concrete in the south of France over the exemption of water restrictions on golf courses during France’s historic drought. did Pictured is a dried up river in Central Arson. (Archyde.com/DENIS BALIBOUSE, 2022)

(Archyde.com) – Ecological group Extinction Rebellion Toulouse has said that golf courses will be exempt from water restrictions during a historic drought in southern France. was filled with concrete.

In the drought-stricken country, residents are being asked to refrain from using water for things like washing cars and watering gardens, but water supply restrictions are left to the discretion of local governments, and in many areas golf courses are covered. It’s outside.

Extinction Rebellion posted on Twitter a photo of a cement-filled cup and a pin with a sign reading: “This hole has 277,000 liters of drinking. #StopGolf.”

“A golf course without a green is like an ice rink without ice,” Gérard Rouget, of the French Golf Federation, defended the exemption from water restrictions, telling a local radio station.

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