BATAILLE DE L’EAU NOIRE (LA)

In this turbulent year of 1978, the “Hardliners from Couvin” were farmers, workers, plumbers, school teachers, professors, insurance agents, naturalists, rascals or law students. Together, beyond religious, political and ideological beliefs, beyond social and cultural categories, they united and achieved a dazzling victory against a pointless dam project that would have engulfed the splendid Black Water valley and threatened their living environment. The Battle of the Black Water was a 9-month inventive, humorous and furiously determined struggle. “It was hard”, they tell us unanimously, only to add it was also the most intense period of their life.