Abstract:

Efficient management of water resources implies the involvement of both the scientific environment and those responsible for policies, as well as the traditional use of local people. The present study aims to investigate the used methods for agricultural practices that have the purpose of preserving water quality, and on the availability of the population to use new one, an important condition for ensuring the ecological climate necessary to support agricultural tourism in Breb, an eco-tourist village where the attraction factor is the traditional way of life. The results of the applied questionnaire indicate that from a set of 18 conservation methods evaluated, the vast majority of the population uses strictly the traditional farming methods, which do not involve a very large financial investment, few conservative measures that are "innovative" for the local tradition (2 of a variety of 18 proposed for analysis) are applied by a very small percentage of farmers and the availability of protective measures does not appear to be significantly influenced by variables such as the age of the subjects, the number of animals in the household or the land occupied.