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"I voted in favour because water is an inalienable public asset which is essential for life and equitable water management plays a vital role in the preservation of the world’s natural capital and ecosystem services as well as in all aspects of resource use and economic production. The future of industry in Europe depends on finding effective responses to the current water challenges and on managing existing water resources, which directly affect human health, energy production, agriculture and food security, both responsibly and efficiently. Europe and the world’s freshwater resources are at risk if we manage them beyond the boundaries of sustainability. Urbanisation, population growth, over consumption, biological and chemical pollution, hydromorphological alterations and climate change put an ever increasing pressure on the availability and quality of safe and secure water. The targets for sustainability in terms of the ecological, chemical and qualitative ‘good status’ to be reached by European water bodies by 2015 are a milestone of European water policy. It is also essential to speed up the development of sewage treatment infrastructure in the Member States. There must be an EU policy response to current and future water challenges, with the objective of ensuring sufficient availability of good quality water for sustainable and equitable use, not just by us, but by future generations."@en1
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