API discovery: France’s VigiEau API exposes /api/zones for a commune or coordinates, with optional user profile and water type. The public specification says the response can carry the zone, its severity, the restriction order, and the uses covered. The API is more useful as a decision lookup than as a generic “drought score.”
Try it
A neighbourhood-maintenance assistant could take a selected commune, ask the endpoint for the current rules, and show the relevant restriction descriptions beside the order PDF. For example, the July 12 response for Paris commune 75056 includes a vigilance-level zone, a current order with an end date, and use-specific restriction records. Treat that as a reproducible example request, not a claim about every address or a forecast.
Copy-paste agent instruction
Use the public VigiEau API at https://api.vigieau.beta.gouv.fr/api/zones. Ask me for a French commune INSEE code or latitude and longitude, then request the endpoint with profil=particulier. Summarize the returned alert-zone severity, the restriction descriptions that apply to that profile, and the order PDF URL with its start and end dates. Do not predict future restrictions or give legal advice; say when the response is empty or ambiguous.Test caveat
The API documentation is public and the endpoint accepted the sample request without authentication or an API key during this check, but access availability can change. Restrictions are time- and location-sensitive, an address may map to several water-resource zones, and the response points to an underlying order rather than replacing it. Recheck the returned order dates, data freshness, and the official PDF before taking an operational action.