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"Mr President, Mr Lannoye’s report contains very accurate and incisive criticisms of the negative effects of privatising water supply services. I wish to take this opportunity of supplementing Mr Lannoye’s criticisms with further arguments, to the effect that privatisation also weakens the protection of precious water resources. In Denmark, the supply of water is based upon a principle of solidarity when it comes to prices and the accessibility of resources. In Denmark, the supply of water services is decentralised, primarily public and to a lesser extent private, but it is always user/owner controlled. That is a very important factor for ensuring the continued protection of sources of water. The public dimension of the Danish water supply services is very active in demanding as high levels of protection as possible and in demanding an end to possible sources of pollution. The private dimension is, however, very satisfied with the diluted requirements that the EU is now coming up with and that mean a weakening of the limit values for pesticides in our drinking water.
Experience in Great Britain and elsewhere also shows that, when the water supply is turned into a commodity and privatised, there is no more protection of resources. At the time when the EU was negotiating in connection with the Drinking Water Directive, London’s private water suppliers were thus lobbied on the same basis as the European chemical industry with a view to our simply allowing large quantities of pesticides into the drinking water. It was easier to earn money that way.
As I see it, the only sure way to protect sources is not to use pesticides. I am therefore very pleased that, in its conclusion, Mr Lannoye’s report has, as its priority, the need to introduce production methods, in both the north and the south, that promote environmentally friendly agriculture, based to a significant degree upon local resources, green technologies and regional cooperatives. I am delighted to vote in favour of Mr Lannoye’s report."@en1
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