Ambérieu-en-Bugey. The Albarine, an intermittent river whose dryness causes ink to flow

"I have a question about the Albarine. It flows through Tenay and Saint-Rambert, but it's dry in Ambérieu and all the way to the Ain River. Can anyone tell me where it's drying up? Has it always been there, or is it due to global warming or something else?" Questions were asked this summer on the social network Facebook.

The Albarine is dry from the confluence at Châtillon-la-Palud to the outskirts of Torcieu. "The Albarine is an intermittent river, which dries up for almost five months a year over a large part of its length," summarizes Thibault Datry, research director at the French National Institute for Agricultural, Food and Environmental Research (INRAE). He has been studying this river in the Bugey region for nearly twenty years. An open-air laboratory for scientific teams, it is world-renowned and is at the heart of a European Dryver program .

“It’s a natural phenomenon since...

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