Chapter I: Drinking water.

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…

By way of derogation from the provisions of Book I of the Code de l’expropriation pour cause d’utilité publique and Chapter III of Title II of Book I of the Code de l’environnement, when a minor modification to one or more of the protection perimeters or related easements mentioned in article L. 1321-2 of this Code is required, the public enquiry is conducted in accordance with a simplified procedure, defined…

The compensation that may be due to the owners or occupiers of land included within a protection perimeter for the abstraction of water intended for human consumption, as a result of measures taken to ensure the protection of this water, is set according to the rules applicable to expropriation for reasons of public utility. When the compensation referred to in the first paragraph is due as a result of the…

I. – Any public or private person responsible for the production or distribution to the public of water intended for human consumption in any form whatsoever, whether public networks or internal networks, as well as any private person responsible for a private distribution authorised in application of article L. 1321-7, is a water supplier. It is required to: 1° Monitor the quality of the water produced or distributed; 2° Submit…

The health monitoring of water intended for human consumption, which is the responsibility of the State, includes water sampling and analysis carried out by the regional health agency or a laboratory approved by the Director General of the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety, with the exception of radioactivity analyses which are carried out by a laboratory approved by the Minister for Health. A laboratory established in…

The persons responsible for water production are public or private persons. The persons responsible for water distribution are the public persons provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 2224-7-1 of the General Local Authorities Code. Within the framework of the tasks provided for in article L. 1321-4 of this code and regardless of the management method chosen, the persons mentioned in this article are responsible for what falls…