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BRENT $83.84/b ▲ TTF €57.74/MWh ▲ OPEC_ORB $108.8/b ● SPR_US 311.5 Mb ▼ FAO_FFPI 130.3 ▼
The forcing is not a precipitation deficit. It is a collapse in the residence time of water in the system. Inputs remain abundant — winter 2025-2026 produced historic floods. The stock no longer holds.
Monitoring density is not uniform. Mountain aquifers are small, heterogeneous and thinly instrumented — we are least able to observe the compartment that drains fastest. The counts below are measured, not asserted.
Each dot is one piezometer. The Gironde alone holds more of them than the nine principal Alpine and Pyrenean departments combined — 206 against 162. Savoie has four. The empty ground in the south-east and along the Pyrenees is not an absence of aquifers; it is an absence of measurement.
Each dot is one piezometer, coloured against its own distribution for that same calendar month over 1991-2020. Drag the month. This year the network went from 15% of points below normal in 2026-02 to 56% in 2026-07. The inputs were not the problem.