In France, major landscape changes have taken place in the last 70 years, in connection with the economic development and with post-Second World War agricultural modernization policies. These have had significant impacts on the landscape of secondary hydrosystems, "ordinary" areas in western France. Taking into account the environment incurrent policies generates projects which models are often antagonistic to the transformations linked to the development of agriculture in the second half of the XXth century. The secondary hydrosystems are then subject to strong mutations over a relatively short period of time and are at the center of conflicts integrating uses and perceptions of rivers that are different and not always compatible.Through t...