The Eco-Museum of Hop-Growing and Brewing Industry in Slovenia is an interactive museum which presents the history of hop-growing in the Lower Savinjska Region also called the Green Gold Valley. It is designed as a research laboratory of the past and present; as a school which educates with the objective of supporting research, protection and preservation of heritage, which joins the people of this region and promotes better understanding of the issues of one’s future; it also acts as a conservation centre which contributes to the preservation, evaluation and development of natural and cultural heritage.
In April 2012 the Slovenian Environment Agency (ARSO) presented the new hydro-metric equipment which was purchased in the framework of the project Upgrade of the system for monitoring and analysing the water environment in Slovenia (BOBER). The equipment will enable more accurate and safer measurements of river flows. In the past ARSO employees measured the flow with the help of boats and hydrometric wings which was a time-consuming and dangerous procedure. The Cohesion Fund contribution for the acoustic Doppler metres of the flows for high-water and normal conditions, remote-controlled small boat and the ultrasonic metre amounts to 85% of the value, i.e. 117,500.00 Euros.
