Water sustainability in the vineyard and land regeneration
The WATER Project was created to address one of the most relevant challenges for hillside viticulture: the responsible management of water resources in a context of climate change.
Developed by Perlage and the Agricultural Society 7 Nardi, the project is part of the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco DOCG territory and UNESCO Core Zone, where environmental fragility, agriculture and tourist use coexist.
The project focuses on a catchment area of about 18 hectares, analyzed as a unique system to apply principles of circular water economy: slowing runoff, promoting infiltration, retaining the resource in the soil, and reducing erosion phenomena. Water is considered not only as a productive factor, but as a key element for landscape stability, biodiversity and vineyard resilience.
Through targeted interventions and an integrated reading of the territory, the ACQUA Project experiments with replicable solutions to adapt hillside viticulture to increasingly extreme climatic conditions, while contributing to environmental protection and landscape quality.
It is a technical and spatial experiment designed to unite agriculture, climate, biodiversity and usability, and to offer a concrete model of sustainable water management in valuable wine-growing areas.
