First Villes et villages sobres en eau labels presented to 44 municipalities

The municipalities of the Pyrénées-Orientales came together around one and the same commitment: to protect water.

At Millas town hall, Edmond Jorda, president of the Association des maires, des adjoints et de l'intercommunalité des Pyrénées-Orientales, presented the first Villes et villages sobres en eau labels (water-efficient towns and villages) to the 44 municipalities selected in this first 2026 edition.

The awards were made alongside Pierre Regnault de la Mothe, prefect of the Pyrénées-Orientales, Hermeline Malherbe, president of the Département, Antoine Saintoyant, director of the Banque des Territoires, and David Colon, founder of Verdeo.

Whether rural, coastal, mountain or urban, these municipalities show that concrete action is possible: water savings in public buildings, measured management of green spaces, awareness-raising among residents and schoolchildren, water reuse, local innovations.

84 municipalities submitted and tracked their application with CreoBoard's calls for projects module, configured on the label's framework. The questionnaire used weighted scoring, responses were analysed centrally, and every application produced a diagnosis they can act on.

Every applicant municipality keeps its access. It manages its water data there, declares its water efficiency actions and tracks their progress. What was an application file becomes a steering tool.

Each diagnosis gives an overall score, a score for each area, a radar profile and recommendations ranked as priority, medium term and long term. In a single page, a municipality knows where it is losing water and where to start.

This ceremony reflects the mobilisation of elected representatives in the Pyrénées-Orientales for more efficient and more sustainable management of the resource.

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