Even though to different extents, the three authorities have found they have to tackle the same problem of eutrophication of the waters, but also that they have the same determination to find the right solutions.

To achieve this, the three authorities have taken the opportunity to find common solutions by setting up the TRELAGHI [literally "Three Lakes"] project. The project was submitted to the scrutiny of the LIFE AMBIENTE Commission as the inspiring principles of the LIFE funding programme to foster innovative demonstrational pilot projects were considered consistent with the needs indicated by the planning instruments employed by the authorities involved for inclusion of environmental matters in planning and developing the territory, as well as sustainable water management and, more in general, of all local resources.

Life Environment, a community financing programme, is promoted by the European Union in order to contribute to the sustainable development, that is to a perspective of economic development careful to the environment protection and therefore to the safeguard of natural resources, whose regeneration and conservation must be assured.

Thus, the specific purpose of the programme is to support the implementation of territory policies and management, on a national and on a local level, careful to the environmental values and integrated within the combination of current activities and interventions.

For the presentation, the project was organised into a hierarchy of competences headed by a coordinating group leader, the Comunità Montana Val Cavallina, referred to as the Beneficiary of the Life regulations.

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