Brussels, 07/06/2000 (Agence Europe) - Water, vital to life and a fundamental right for all, or a rare commodity reserved to the affluent? The legitimacy of this question was highlighted on Wednesday at the opening of the P7 -the summit of the world's seven poorest nations- organised at the initiative of the Greens in the European Parliament to study a global water policy in which the developing nations would not be rejects (see yesterday's EUROPE, page 16).
A fourth of the world's...