Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-10-Speech-1-077"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) within the WTO, including cultural diversity2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030310.4.1-077"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-10-Speech-1-0782
lpv:speaker	lp:Claude Turmes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-03-07)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Les Verts (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Commissioner Reding, Commissioner Lamy, I will confine myself to discussing the liberalisation of the water sector. Mr Lamy, you think that more competition will provide the poor with high quality drinking water. I personally dispute your view and I believe that there are more and more of us who do so. Any commercialisation of water will automatically lead to an increase in consumption, for that is precisely how the system works. You say that there is no mention of liberalising the resource in the requests the Union makes to the developing countries. That does not make things any better, for commercialising water distribution will make it impossible to guarantee proper water management. Moreover, we also know from experience that it is not the poor who benefit from commercialising water. Bogota, Buenos Aires and Jakarta are proof of that. Therefore, let us have the political courage to define water as a public good and exclude it from GATS."@en1

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