The Debate About the Storage Basins in France

San Salin is a village 80 kilometers from Paris. Plans are to build a huge water storage basin that will store enough groundwater to fill 250 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Opponents say it amounts to water privatisation and promotes industrial farming which depletes scarce resources, uses too much water. In March, thousands of demonstrators flooded the village to protest the basin,. violence ensued, and many were injured.