Irrigation project, protecting the flowing meadows of the Great Watering of Lommel

Grassland

Country

Belgium

Region

Western Europe

Approach

Volunteer mobilization and citizen involvement

Funding

Private, Public, Mixed funding

This initiative in Lommel, Belgium, focuses on the preservation of the "vloeiweiden" (water meadows), a unique 19th-century irrigation system. Volunteers maintain this cultural landscape, using traditional irrigation with calcareous water from a canal system to sustain a rare biotope. The practice is recognized as intangible heritage.