00:00In the Adriatic Basin, every drop of water counts.
00:04Here in Puglia, in southern Italy, water shortages have got worse with climate change.
00:10And on top of that, a bacterium has decimated the olive groves.
00:14The EU EcoFlow project brings together Greek and Italian experts.
00:18The idea is to irrigate land by reusing treated wastewater from Gallopoli, which would otherwise go into the sea.
00:25On this test site, there are three rows of bacteria-resistant olive trees and three forms of watering.
00:55At the wastewater treatment plant in Gallopoli, the water for the EcoFlow project is purified even further,
01:01using a patented mini-station that was developed as part of another EU project called ReWater.
01:08So what is the process for further disinfecting the water?
01:30EcoFlow has a budget of over one and a half million euros, 75% of which has been financed by
01:37the EU Cohesion Policy,
01:38and the remaining 25% was funded by Greece and Italy, the two countries participating in the project.
01:48The laboratory of the Politechnic University of Bari provides technical and scientific support to the main partner of the project
01:55for the tests that are carried out for EcoFlow, both with water and with soil,
01:59on the two varieties of olive trees that are watered.
02:23This farm produces over 60 tons of olives each year.
02:27The owner waters part of his crops with water from his well
02:30and a younger olive grove with water that has been treated as usual
02:33and supplied by the Gallopoli concert here.
02:36And he can already see the difference.
02:40We didn't expect that the plants of four years come in production
02:47and so we were happy to have found a more rapid development of the plant,
02:53probably due to the type of water used.
02:56The live shadow.
02:57And then, though, for many years of the harvesters,
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