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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-07-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Implementation of EU water legislation (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120702.20.1-134-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-07-02-Speech-1-135-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:João Ferreira2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2013-02-03)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; EUL/NGL (2012-02-07--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ENVI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; BUDG (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, there is a clear dividing line in this debate. On one side, are the advocates of the water industry; those who ignore or misrepresent the UN General Assembly resolution that acknowledged the right to drinking water and sanitation as a human right. Whilst saying they defend the right of access to water, they are blazing a trail for the interests of the transnational water cartel, whose greed inevitably clashes with genuinely guaranteeing Europeans the right to water and sanitation of which many of them are deprived. They are the ones who insist on seeing water as a marketable good, for which very reason they subject it to the rules of the internal market, thereby even contradicting previous resolutions of this Parliament. They are the ones who have been promoting, in Europe and across the world, the privatisation of water and water services, with disastrous consequences of inequality and exclusion, with brutal price hikes at the same time as the profits of the sector’s companies are increasing, and with drops in service quality even leading to water being cut off. It is that for which European Union legislation has been paving the way, and this report is part of the process. The other side of this debate has those who consider water a common good of mankind; a public good, essential to life, that should not, for that very reason, be a source of commercial profit. They are the ones who believe market rules cannot be applied to water or water services and who, for that very reason, advocate excluding water from the internal market. They are the ones who fought for the adoption of the UN resolution and struggle for compliance therewith, so as to ensure drinking water and sanitation for all, without exceptions, as a human right essential to living life to its full potential and to all other human rights. They are the ones struggling for public ownership and management of this precious public resource. That is the side we are on, along with the alternative resolution we have tabled. As to which side the other groups in this Parliament are on, we will see."@en1
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