The water intake of Pont Saint-Charles

"This ""basin"" is one of the inlets of Val d´Isère. This mainly supplies water to the 30,000 weekly visitors that the resort receives each winter. The water from the catchment area is used for drinking water, the residents’ sanitation needs, the municipality’s public facilities and also for the manufacture of part of the artificial snow of the ski slopes. Like all ski resorts, these winter collections coincide with the low water period, when the flow rate is the lowest."