Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-15-Speech-4-291-750"
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"Our water consumption is constantly increasing. Today it takes 11 000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans and 15 000 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef. We tend to forget that water is the source of everything. With the coming rise in the global population, it will become an even more precious resource. In some parts of the world, satisfying a need as basic as drinking can be an impossible task. The terrible drought that hit the Horn of Africa last year, forcing women and children into a veritable exodus, reminds us of the urgent need for global coordination in order to face up to this challenge. In my constituency, we are also feeling the need to better preserve this gift of nature. The water shortages facing our farmers and the pollution of rivers and coastal regions are problems to which the EU must respond. This issue is all at once global, European, national and local. I therefore voted for this motion for a resolution which proposes solutions which take into account the different levels of the water management challenge and will stimulate the debates that will take place at the World Water Forum in Marseille."@en1
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