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"en.20120703.18.2-321-250"2
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"The Greek Communist Party group in the European Parliament voted against the report because it promotes the commercialisation of water, which will have drastic consequences on grassroots households and poor farmers with medium-sized holdings, who will pay through the nose for water for domestic use and irrigation. The commercialisation of water has always been a basic concern in European directives and a source of profit to euro-unifying business groups and this is not reversed by any hypocritical references in the report to water as a public good. The report avoids any reference to the criminal insistence of the EU institutions on maintaining fatal concentrations of hexavalent chromium in drinking water (maximum limit 50 μgr/lt), which is a very serious health and environmental problem. On the question of access to drinking water, the report ‘welcomes the early achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal on sustainable access to safe drinking water’, despite the fact that the exploitative capitalist system deprives millions of people of the self-evident right to drinking water, with more than 2.5 million children a year losing their lives and 800 million people a year still drinking unsafe water."@en1
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