Clip 5 from the 1950s French film 'A La Claire Fontaine' (By The Clear Fountain). Scenes of sewage treatment plants in Saint-Maur and Ivry. Pools of water and illustrations of bacterial flora. Water filtering and workers working at the...

Clip 5 from the 1954 film 'Les Deux Visages Du Sahara', a short propaganda film exploring the French government's contribution to Algeria during colonization. In this clip, sports and leisure in Colom Bechar, academic research,...

Clip 1 from the 1954 film 'Les Deux Visages Du Sahara', a short propaganda film exploring the French government's contribution to Algeria during colonization. In this clip, shots of the Sahara desert and caravans of camels. Bedouin...

Dozens of empty corbicula shells line a riverbed of the Loire (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

In the wetlands of southern France, environmentalists and industralists clash over the Narse de Nouvialle, an exceptional French wetland that is home to one of the largest deposits of diatomite in Europe (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

CLEAN : Paris sets up a beach in the heart

French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen holds a rally in Sable d'Olonne in western France hitting out at her rivals centrist Emmanuel Macron and conservative Francois Fillon

'These are extreme situations that we normally see much later in the year': in the middle of the tourist season, water has been declared non-drinkable in this town in the northeastern Vosges region (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)