Water Trash

1. Collège JP RAMEAU
ERASMUS + 2017

2. May 2017 French team : Amdjed,
Youssef, Anaëlle, Anaïs, Mégane,
……Where is Reda?

3. France : more than 125 000
streams of all sorts…
• In France, there are
• * 490 rivers : the largest ones : La Seine,
Le Rhône, la Loire, la Garonne.
• * 1714 canals
• * 1288 mountain streams
• * 27347 brooks and creeks
And France has shores with the (English)
Channel, The Atlantic Ocean, and the
Mediterranean sea.

4. There is no large river in Dijon.
But river Seine springs very near
our city.

5. In Dijon
• Lac Kir
• It is an artificial lake. It was Inaugurated in
1964. It is named after its creator Félix Kir
(Religious man and mayor of Dijon, he also
gave his name to the coktail)., The lake is
situated at the West entrance West of Dijon.
It soon became a place to rest and have fun.
• There are many species of birds and
rondents living in and around it.

6. King fisher, wild geese, Heron,
Mallard, Moorhen

7. Rivers in Dijon
• There aren’t any large river in Dijon but there
are three small ones.
• * the Ouche, which is about 100 km long. It
flows through the city and the lake then ends
up in a larger river, the Saône.
• * The Raisnes. Now it is totally covered and
flows « underground ».
• River Suzon flows into the Ouche; It has
been protected for its richness since 2011.

8. The situation in Burgundy
• * Only one stream out of 3 is sound.
• In spite of the waste water plants and
numerous strategies to keep water clean,
the situation does not improve.

9. Sources of pollution
• Toxic elements mainly come from
– Industrial plants : chemical substances, heavy metals
such as lead, arsenic, mercury.
– Intensive agriculture : pesticides, fertilizers,
– What people throw : paper, cans, tarsh, platic,
cigarette butts……(tourism)
– Daily products : detergents, soaps, drugs,

10. Consequences of pollution :
– On health : endocrine disruptors, cancers, impact
on reproduction abilities,
– Strong impact on water biodiversity : impact on
reproduction, eutrophication (reduction of the
oxygen level in water), endangered species (as
far as extinction). New non endemic species
colonize the polluted spaces and take over
natural species.