(FILES) A young man fills a water barrel at a payment-operated water fountain, in Tsoundzou 2 district, in the township of Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, on October 31, 2025. For three years now, the taps in Mayotte have been running only intermittently. As the Paris criminal court delivers its ruling on April 16, 2026 in the trial of the former management of the water authority, the people of Mayotte are enduring scheduled water cuts, the legacy of a historic drought in 2023, but also of poor management and exhausted infrastructure. (Photo by Marine GACHET / AFP via Getty Images)