22/03/2021 (Agence Europe) – On World Water Day, Monday 22 March, a day set aside to highlight the importance of water, the EU called for global governance of water as a human right and a resource that needs to be saved at a time when water scarcity already affects a quarter of the world’s population. “The EU strongly encourages and, where possible, directly supports increased cooperation and transparency in water governance at all levels. Just this month we are inaugurating in Djibouti a desalination plant powered with renewable energies and a wastewater treatment plant in the West Bank equipped with collection and irrigation networks to re-use water”, said Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Virginijus Sinkevičius, the EU Commissioner for the Environment, in a statement. The statement can be found at: http://bit.ly/3r3zo1G (AN)