Climate activists have sabotaged luxury golf courses in the south of France, protesting against the 'leisure industry for the most privileged' and its exemption for the country's water ban.
Golf greens are exempt from France's nationwide water restrictions due to a national agreement signed in 2019
They added that they wished to "denounce the monopolisation of water by this leisure industry for the most privileged".Despite nationwide water restrictions, and more than 100 French villages suffering drinking water shortages, golf courses can stay green due to a national framework agreement signed between the French Golf Federation and the Ministry of Ecological Transition in 2019.
On average, it takes 25,000 cubic metres of water per year to tend to the lawns of the more than 700 courses in France. Éric Piolle, the mayor of the city of Grenoble in south-eastern France, tweeted that "the practices of the richest" continue to be "protected".
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