Where you at? The Lyon edition

I’d be remiss if i didn’t answer my own prompt for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival. I don’t expect anyone to answer the whole quiz, let alone without prior research, but i wanted to have a go at the full twenty questions. So here’s where i’m at. 1. Trace the water you drink from precipitation to tap The Rhône begins its life in the eponymous glacier, near the Gotthard Massif, and flows through Lake Geneva. It reaches Lyon from the north-east, but a few kilometres before the city, the Jonage and Miribel canals split it around the islands of Crépieux-Charmy, forming a 375-hectare well field. The 114 wells on the islands draw from the alluvial aquifer that runs alongside the river. Water pumped from the Old Rhône is spread into infiltration basins to form a barrier protecting the wells from pollution and to maintain the level of the aquifer during dry months. From there, it’s pumped up to 65 reservoirs and water towers across the metropolis and gravity-fed down to the tap. Crépieux-Charmy…

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