# Water flowing through industrial facilities, the governance of an illusive abundance. Insights from the cases of Port-Jérôme and the Lyon Chemical Valley.
**Date de l'événement :** 01/09/2025
* Publié le 01/09/2025

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## Auteur(s)
Léa Marissal

## Direction
Manisha Anantharaman

## Description
**Ce mémoire est issu de la sélection des meilleurs mémoires du master de sociologie de l'année 2024-2025 :  
  
Abstract**  
  
Industrial water use in France has long followed a paradigm of abundance. Climate change now starkly reveals the vulnerability of this resource. In response, regulators have promoted decreased industrial water use through “hydric sufficiency”. This aim is, however, challenged by another political priority: reindustrialization, which risks intensifying water pressures. Understanding industrial water governance, an understudied topic, appears more than urgent. Through a cross-case qualitative analysis of two industrial complexes  Port-Jérôme and the Lyon Chemical Valley—this research examines how industrial water governance is configured, but also transformed by these political pressures. Industrial water governance reveals itself to be a complex system, amid actor profusion across scales. The production of data and a shared diagnosis emerge as pivotal steps in this governance. This step sets the stage in which French rivers are still framed as sources of abundant water flows. Furthermore, the analysis of industrial regulation reveals internal tensions and limitations in preserving water within industrial uses. This thesis unpacks these dynamics favorable to industrial development, particularly revealed in cases of drinking water pollution. Hydric transition, far from resolving these tensions, further reinforces them. By dissecting the narrative apparatus that underpins current reforms, this thesis nuances the depth of industrial transformation and exposes the depoliticization of water preservation under the guise of reindustrialization.  
  
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