[Departement_IRSTEA]Eaux [TR1_IRSTEA]GEUSIInternational audienceIn the Cévennes, in summer, water resources are rare. The gap between these resources and population needs generates local difficulties. Climate change (possible aridification…) and the evolution of lifestyles (increase in consumption, water for leisure activities…) may increase the problems in the future. Except for inter-basin transfers, the solution can only be found in a more appropriate exploitation and sharing of available water at each point of the river system. The HydroPop program is based on the necessity of a fair sharing of the resource assuming a knowledge of the hydrologic phenomenon and supported on the population attachment of the population to their natural env...