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Four departments put on orange heatwave alert
Hot weather warnings look set to increase over the coming days
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Tourism and leisure sectors in France commit to water saving measures
25 industry players will receive government funding to reduce consumption
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French pharmacists threaten summer of ‘guerilla’ strike action
Protests, closures, and blockades of medicine depots are all on the agenda as anger in the sector rises
Paris tests anti-heat and anti-noise roads
Paris is the first city in France to test a special road surface aimed at reducing noise and heat

Rue de Courcelles, rue Lecourbe and rue Frémicourt in the 8th and 15th arrondissements have been fitted with 200-metre sections which can reduce temperature by two degrees and cut noise by half.
The move follows on from France’s Plan Climat of 500 measures to reach carbon-neutrality by 2050.