In Rouen, 90,000 residents face polluted water

Faced with the contamination of its main drinking water catchment, the Rouen metropolitan area has failed to find an alternative source after ten years of research. A dead end. This, in a nutshell, is the conclusion of a research program aimed at finding a new drinking water resource, initiated by the Rouen Normandy Metropolitan Area (MRN) in 2015, revealed today by Reporterre. In Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, the La Chapelle catchment, the metropol…