Part One: General health protection

Everyone should have access, at least daily, in their home or living environment or, failing that, close to it, to a sufficient quantity of water intended for human consumption to meet their needs in terms of drinking, food preparation and cooking, personal hygiene and general hygiene, and to ensure the cleanliness of their home or living environment.

The municipalities or their public cooperation establishments, taking into account the particularities of the local situation, take the necessary measures to improve or preserve access to water intended for human consumption for everyone. These measures make it possible to guarantee access to water intended for human consumption for everyone, even if there is no connection to the public water distribution network intended for human consumption, including people in vulnerable situations…

I.-Water intended for human consumption is clean and wholesome water which, on its own, is suitable for drinking, food preparation and cooking, personal hygiene, general hygiene and cleanliness, other domestic uses in public and private places, as well as for the preparation of foodstuffs and goods intended for human consumption in food businesses. Water is considered clean and wholesome when it meets the requirements set by the decree provided for…

In order to ensure the protection of water quality, the act declaring the works for the abstraction of water intended for human consumption to be in the public interest, as mentioned in article L. 215-13 of the Environment Code, determines an immediate protection perimeter around the abstraction point, the land of which must be purchased outright, and a close protection perimeter within which any kind of installation, work, activity, deposit,…

When one or more local authorities are supplied with water intended for human consumption by abstraction works owned by private individuals and not covered by a public service delegation, the State representative in the department may, at the request of the private individual and after obtaining the agreement of the majority of local authorities supplied with water in relation to the populations served, declare that it is in the public…