Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-10-09-Speech-4-256"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-10-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20081009.25.4-256"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-10-09-Speech-4-2572
lpv:speaker	lp:Konstantinos Droutsas2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (2008-06-03--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2008-06-04--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (2008-06-03--2009-07-13)3 member; AGRI (2008-06-04--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2008-06-04--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2008-06-04--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ECON (2008-06-04--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"A smattering of fine words cannot hide the anti-popular nature of the proposals in the report, whose main thrust is the reactionary idea of ‘demand-based water management’. The report concludes by highlighting a range of measures essentially confined to raising the price of water and the cost of supplying it. Yet another weighty levy is being imposed on the masses and on poor and medium-scale farmers because water is being completely commercialised. The aim is also to increase the profitability of monopoly business groups. The resolution makes no distinction between drought and water scarcity, which are two different phenomena calling for different responses. There is no mention whatsoever of the principle of preserving and improving the ratio of exploitable water reserves to available water reserves and the precipitation rate. The report underestimates the positive role of forests as an active factor in mitigating the natural phenomenon of drought and combating water scarcity. As a result, it not only fails to propose reforestation measures, but also emphasises that ‘an increase in forest cover’ should be undertaken only ‘where it is absolutely vital’. The report downplays the risk of floods and the need to take flood protection measures. Quite the opposite: it asks that we ‘avoid creating barriers to the natural course of rivers’, and indulges in scaremongering about social and environmental problems caused by rivers being diverted. The workers are fighting for adequate supplies of clean, safe water. They oppose the commercialisation of what is still a social good, even though it is prey to the profit-making of monopolies."@en1

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