Luxury group Kering has launched a Water Resilience Lab – the first in a series of ten – as part of its Water Strategy, published in 2025.

At the time, it highlighted Tuscany’s Arno Basin as a priority.

Italy’s national tanning industry association, UNIC, says the towns of Santa Croce, Castelfranco di Sotto, Montopoli, San Miniato, Bientina, Santa Maria a Monte and Fucecchio are home, collectively, to the largest number of tanneries in Italy. Some of these towns are on the banks of the Arno; none is more than a few kilometres from the river.

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