Paris without water

Once again, Gennevilliers, Bécon, and Colombes are running out of water. In some buildings in Auteuil, the taps are running dry. Throughout western Paris, people are reduced to filling any container of any size they can find, starting at 8:00 a.m.; the rest of the day, they have to queue at the public fountain.
The event will probably have surprised those affected no more than the floods surprised residents along the Seine and Marne. And, just as the navigation services meticulously describe the hygrometric origins of the last river disaster, the offices of the Seine prefecture are full of scientific details on the current crisis:

Paris consumes 630,000 cubic meters of water per day, more than 200 liters per capita. Consumption has increased by 25% since June 1st. Moreover, measures are planned. The Measures
Paris will have as much water as it needs when the waters of the Loire Valleys have been captured. This will allow us to bring in a million cubic meters. The unfortunate thing is that it will take several years to complete this operation...
We've been served. But there is at least one measure that has always been discussed: the repair of the pipes. Where are we with it?
For while new buildings have gone up in the suburbs, while gardens have multiplied, while people have even gradually acquired a taste for serious ablutions—even though you need parental permission to take a schoolboy to the shower—our water still reaches us through pipes of a ridiculous diameter, which met Paris's needs more than twenty years ago. And limescale deposits have ended up blocking them almost completely. It's hardly surprising, therefore, that the pipes on the upper floors remain dry.