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"Mr President, the report we have been presented with contains some positive points, particularly its assessment of how EU legislation is being implemented, which is thorough to say the least, and the essential areas for action. However, these are the only positive points. If we look at how these issues have developed, it seems to me that we are missing the main point of this issue; in other words, the democratic aspect and the question of public involvement that this issue is raising in many European countries. Take, also, the response of local authorities: under this pressure, many more of them are returning to managing water through public corporations.
The report by my friend and colleague, Mr Chountis, does not seem to have been taken into consideration. What is worse, apart from a brief mention, the report does not really take on board the fact that, in July 2012, access to drinking water and sanitation was recognised by the United Nations as a human right.
If we really want to view water as a shared resource of humankind and of life on earth, we should not see it as a mere commodity that must obey rules of yield and profit.
It is time we condemned the damage that privatisation has done in terms of the quality, healthiness and cost of water, and the monopoly and deviations of a few European multinational companies across the globe."@en1
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