A drinking water network, a living heritage!

Created in 1949 by André Bossanne Mayor of Marsaz and Councillor of the republic, it took energy and courage to build a drinking water network. Eight municipalities embarked on the adventure. But it took more than 10 years for the first subscribers to be fed... Everything was to be built, water catchments, pipes, storage tanks and connections of each house. But the water was vital and the farmers accepted without hesitation to see their fields cross to spread throughout the territory this precious good and essential to life. Others took up the torch with the same energy Etienne Larat, Mayor of Saint Bardoux then Max Osternaud Mayor of Larnage and now Christian Colombet 1st Deputy in Chavannes. It is this slow, patient and obstinate epic that will be counted by coming to the site of Eaux de la Veaune to better know this atypical structure feeding in direct management a territory of 175 km² larger than that of the city of Paris. Still a producer of naturally potable water without treatment or chlorination, it supplies 19 municipalities from the Drôme des Collines to the first foothills of the Ardèche with a network that, like the veins of a human body, cover the whole of this magnificent hilly territory.