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"Nature provides water free of charge; water belongs to everyone and everyone must have access to it. It cannot be a commodity for the profitability of capital, because access to water is a fundamental right, closely connected with health, environmental protection, development and the quality of life.
The management of water resources must be the sole responsibility of the state, so there can be a universal supply of good quality water at an affordable price.
The Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico will basically take place under the aegis of the World Bank and its class policy; in other words, its policy of privatising water supply systems, which means a lack of drinking water for the poor, grass-roots classes and new profits for capital.
The ΕU is promoting the policy of liberalising services within the framework of the Lisbon Strategy. It agreed on services (GATS) with the other imperialist centres during WTO negotiations.
The privatisation and destruction of forests and mountain massifs, which are important water storage areas, comes within the philosophy of profitability, which holds basic human needs in contempt.
We MEPs of the Kommounistiko Komma Elladas express our opposition to the Fourth World Water Forum because, in the face of profit, basic human needs are being held in contempt. We call on the working class and the grass roots to fight to overturn the barbaric, anti-grass roots plans of their exploiters."@en1
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