Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-03-Speech-3-260"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Developing countries2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030903.10.3-260"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-03-Speech-3-2612
lpv:speaker	lp:Armonia Bordes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we certainly support those aspects of the report that censure the system, and for that reason we will be voting for the report, despite the impotence that it expresses. What sort of a society is it in which nearly a third of humankind does not even have access to that most basic commodity, drinking water? Millions of people in poor countries die every year if not of thirst then at least from the many diseases spread by contaminated water. Is it because there are insurmountable technical obstacles to providing all the inhabitants of our planet with drinking water? No. Everyone knows that it is quite simply about money. Everyone also knows that twenty-first century society has accumulated more than enough material and financial resources to provide this. But water itself and its distribution have become a colossal source of profits for the multinational conglomerates. These conglomerates – Vivendi, the former Société Générale des Eaux, Suez, Bouygues – are free to raise water prices while international institutions vote through resolutions and prepare the ground for them by systematically dismantling public water services in poor countries. Their profit is dirty money, contaminated by the blood of the millions of people who die of dysentery, cholera, typhus, malaria and bilharzia. In 10 years, the number of human beings without drinking water has risen from 1.2 billion to 1.7 billion. This is a crime against humanity and speaks volumes about the deadly harm inflicted by the current organisation of the economy, which plunges a part of humanity into barbarism."@en1

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