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Presentation :
Sveti Peter is a village of 400 inhabitants
to 220 meters of altitude, with a few km
of the Slovenien coast (42 km length).
Nadja and its family live the village of
Sveti Peter since always. It lives there
with her 18 year old son and his parents
in a house close to the source.
The source of Sveti Peter is made
up :
- of a tank which makes it possible to have
a constant flow with each use. This tank
was built at last century by the Austrians
under the empire austro-Hungarian.
- of a feeding trough
- of a laundrette.
These two last are fed by the too full one
with the source via a drain which crosses
the road. They thus allow an optimal use
of spring water.
Why are we still use this water
?:
The village of Sveti Peter has been equipped
with distribution system of water for 20
years.
Although this water is drinkable, Nadja
decided that it preferred to come to rather
seek with the source the 10 liters of water
which are necessary for him for the food,
than drinking a water which it finds bad.
But less and less villager make in the same
way. Indeed, the village is rather long
and sloping, the inhabitants do not have
thus any more courage to come to the source.
Some come nevertheless by car from the village
or close villages to fill of the bottles
to have a water of quality less expensive
than to the supermarket.
Today the feeding trough and the laundrette
always contain the too full of one spring
water but this water is used by the close
relations neighbor to sprinkle their plants
and their gardens.
Traditions :
There are no traditions as for the hour
of the water drudgery, one goes there as
soon as one can, where necessary, or if
there are an appointment with the source.
On the other hand we never heard speak,
nivu men with this corvée.Par against
it is even of notoriety that the unmarried
boys of Sveti Peter were coveted for the
source of their village and especially the
laundrette (little village had which it
and the detergents were to then be done
in small vats in the houses).
For the transport of water there existed
before the buckets and the bottles out of
plastic, of the zinc vats from 15 to 20
Liters. With a slightly concave bottom,
they went on the head.
In this manner tells us a song, the girls
liked to come to the source to meet their
lover there.
Four songs are attached to this source.
And for our pleasure Nadja will sing them
to us with an old woman come to seek water.
The songs are in Italian, French or Slovenien
dialect. One of it tells the history of
a young woman who asks to her mother if
it can go to seek water with the source
where it will meet beautiful young man who
awaits it (to listen to this song cilquer
on the photograph).
It is interesting to note this strong implication
between water and the love and even water
and the marriage.
Conservation of the source :
Analyzed every year by the National Institute
of Biology of Ljubljana, water is supervised
at the bacteriological level. His potability
thus is determined. Because this source
is the last of the not to be polluted area.
Even the deepest wells (there is much well
in the village) were polluted by the discharge
of worn water. And in spite of the existence
of a sewerage system for several years,
this problem has persisted.
There is thus a real will of the commune
of preserve this inheritance cultural and
social and a project of restorations of
the tank is being studied.
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