Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-15-Speech-2-121"
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"Mr President, as well as the legal considerations that I mentioned during the general debate on Mrs Breyer’s report, I would like to stress that the reason why my group and myself voted in favour of this report is also the extraordinarily far-reaching importance of the texts submitted for vote by Parliament.
One of the reasons why Europe has shown exemplary development across the board, one of the reasons for this balanced development and for the high quality farming industry which has always accompanied Europe’s economic development is precisely the fact that Europe has always had inexhaustible – in that they are infinitely renewable – resources of the precious liquid which keeps us alive. Both the quality and the quantity of water resources are now at risk from senseless and rapidly increasing amounts of pollution, which has been virtually uncontrollable over the last few centuries. Yet, dangerous amounts of resources are being wasted at the very time when, due to the explosion in the planet’s population, it is proving difficult to provide adequate water supplies to the six billion people who live on this planet today and, all the more so, to the extra eight billion people who could potentially be living here in 30 years’ time, in other words, in just one generation. None of the Member States, none of our regions can hope to avoid being pressurised on these two issues, which indicates how much we need the Commission’s initiative, Parliament’s vote and the Council’s agreement in order to prepare for the future, in general, and for Europe’s future in particular."@en1
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