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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9153

17 March 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/environment
Parliament urges World Water Forum to recognise right of access to drinking water as fundamental human right - no to water privatisation

Strasbourg, 16/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - The right of the poorest sections of society to access drinking water as a fundamental human right and to enjoy this shared human resource should be acknowledged as a right. This is the essential message the European Parliament would like to see coming out of the World Forum on Water, which opened on Thursday in Mexico (Mexico, 16-22 March) on the theme of “Local action for a Global Challenge”. This is therefore the essential demand it formulated...

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