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“It\u2019s a hole of greenery where a river sings, madly clinging to the grasses with its silver rags<\/strong><\/em>\u00bb,\r\n\r\nadmirably wrote Arthur Rimbaud, in one of his most beautiful works! Water is here, in the eyes of the poet, the symbol of a calm and peaceful landscape, suitable for rest and meditation. But this is only one side of a small molecule with a thousand faces! As a liquid, it may take on the appearance of fine droplets that slowly seep from underground cave ceilings or concentrate into joyful springs that will feed many streams and other majestic rivers, before getting lost, as roaring waves, in the immensity of the seas and oceans. Solid, the water turns into gigantic alpine glaciers, powdery snow, immaculate pack ice drifts or dangerous icebergs! Gaseous, finally, it forms a greyish fog that drapes the landscape with a melancholic haze or condenses into huge fluffy clouds, a prelude to thunderstorms and torrential rains. Hence, water passes through all its states – liquid, solid and gaseous – during a fundamental “hydrological cycle”, over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The symbolism of water<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is mainly in the form of a fluid that water has marked human civilization without exception. According to Greek thought, water is, along with earth, air and fire, one of the four classical elements of the world and many deities are dedicated to it: from the irascible Poseidon, master of the seas, to the titanic Ocean, which surrounds the known universe, to the beautiful Aphrodite, goddess of love, born from sea foam. The destructive power of water – like the terrible biblical flood that swept away corrupted humanity, except for Noah’s Ark – reflects divine anger! Man must then repair his errors using purifying and redemptive water of baptism or various ablutions. He will finally regain health thanks to healing water and life will be able to resume its more or less tortuous course, like that of streams, torrents, or rivers… For water is the source of all life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Water as the source of life<\/strong>: Kadri Vunder, co-founder of Cervo Volante with desert boot NATURALA<\/a> and her husband with sneaker ALBIS<\/a> on the seashore in their home country Estonia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

H2O, a vital molecule<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life! A unique phenomenon born from a primordial soup of carbon atoms and water! A primitive broth that slowly thickened until the first micro-organisms appear, followed by increasingly complex life forms, all composed of water in various proportions and all dependent on this precious molecule… the famous H2O (or H-O-H) of chemists! Today there are millions of species, all derived from a common ancestor, which inhabit the tiny planet we call Earth… An inappropriate name to say the least when we know that this unique celestial body – probably the only one to harbour life – is made of more than 70% water! Yet, most water reserves, being it solid, fluid or gaseous, and known as hydrosphere, are composed of salt water (97%), while fresh water, which is essential for any life being, is scarce (3%)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Anthropocene, a threat to fresh water?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With man’s stranglehold on nature, a period that some call the Anthropocene, the fresh water cycle is being severely threatened. In the first place, a large part is being used for agricultural purposes, be it for livestock farming or the ever more intensive fodder cultivation. The industrial sector is also very water-demanding, either as a raw material, solvent, hydroelectric source or coolant. Finally, drinking water is consumed for domestic needs (hygiene, food, leisure) of a constantly growing population with significant disparities between geographic regions… if many countries content themselves with 25 l per inhabitant a day, others happily waste 300! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome to the world of Cervo Volante<\/strong>, where the chemical name for water H-O-H<\/strong> means “H<\/strong>ope for O<\/strong>rganisms and H<\/strong>abitats”!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Save the blue gold!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the game is not over yet! Everyone can make a sustainable contribution. At Cervo-Volante<\/strong>, we produce our own leather in a totally eco-friendly way, using a natural tanning process with a very small ecological footprint. One of our goals is to save as much water as possible at each manufacturing stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our hides originate from the control of natural wild populations of Swiss red deer. This local supply<\/strong> avoids the ecological costs associated with intensive farming (important water requirements, eutrophication of small watercourses, etc.) or long-distance imports (high carbon accounting) and promotes sustainable production in the long term. The raw skins are air dried without salt<\/strong>, thereby reducing the consumption of rinsing water and the eventual pollution of surface water by sodium chloride! The absence of chemical pre-tanning steps<\/strong>, based on synthans or aldehydes that favour the penetration of the tannic agent, also prevents contamination of fragile, aquatic ecosystems. Finally, the use of<\/strong> natural tannins<\/strong> makes it possible to banish all the problems related to the – almost generalized – use of toxic chromium, such as the accumulation in rivers during the extraction and elimination processes, the potential chronic poisoning of the local workforce in developing countries, or the saturation of the leather with heavy metals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cervo Volante Leather<\/strong> – The purest natural leather from wild Swiss red deer. Purely vegetable, refined without heavy metals and without chemical pre-tanning. For the protection of water, water bodies and organisms. Read more about our leather here.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Water at Cervo Volante<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always at Cervo Volante, the leitmotif is: let’s save nature<\/strong>! Our vegetable tanning method is thought out at each step in terms of potential ecological load. The price of quality and uniqueness, of environmental protection, of a future beyond 2050 is intimately tied with the saving and safeguarding of the most precious resource of our blue planet\u2026 Welcome to a world where H-O-H<\/strong> stands for H<\/strong>ope for O<\/strong>rganisms and H<\/strong>abitats!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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