The inhabitants of the locality of Sainte-Agnès in the Alpes-Maritimes department have long obtained their drinking water from the village's fountain. It was built in 1883 and supplied by the Bausson spring. It was not until 1964 that the houses of Sainte-Agnès were connected to the drinking water network. This evolution radically transformed the lives of the villagers, whose population, which had fallen to less than 300 inhabitants in 1954, soon began to rise again.