In fractured media, the factors that make evolve a stable fractured media towards a landslide highlight the watereffect as an aggravating and a triggering factor of slope instabilities. Long term water effect on stability isstudied from spring water chemistry, which gives data about the weathering state in the slope (aggravating factorof the instability) and about infiltration event in the massif (triggering factor).Thus, hydrochemistry enables to propose a conceptual model of flow in unstable slope. A multi scale approach,in two alpine valleys, of relations between the flows and the instability structures highlights the draining role ofthese structures. Slopes comparison enables to discuss the long term evolution of the effect between wate...