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"Today in plenary in Strasbourg, we adopted Richard Seeber’s report on the implementation of EU water legislation. Urbanisation, population growth, over consumption, pollution and climate change are putting pressure on the availability and quality of safe and secure water. The European Water Framework Directive (WFD), adopted in 2000, sets a target for sustainability in terms of the ecological, chemical and quantitative ‘good status’ to be reached by European water bodies by 2015. However, the rate of implementation of the WFD has been slow across European countries and it is clear that a significant number of EU water bodies will not reach ‘good status’ by 2015. Decisive action at EU level is thus needed to address the water challenges faced by our continent. In this context, the Commission has launched a ‘Blueprint to safeguard Europe’s water resources’, to be published in November 2012, with the objective of ensuring sufficient availability of good-quality water for sustainable and equitable water use. The rapporteur appreciates the Commission’s initiative, believing that Parliament must make a fundamental contribution to this process through policies to safeguard water that may be enforced by Member States."@en1
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