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"As water is undeniably our most valuable resource, ensuring the protection of water ecosystems is the most important environmental challenge of our time. Water plays a crucial part in regulating the earth’s climate, it ensures food safety and security, and it provides a huge amount of wealth to our economies, societies and cultures. But as the world is slowly becoming aware that our current ways of life are not sustainable, it also realises this resource is critically at risk. Frequently, the threat is pollution for European waters versus scarcity in third countries, which is another reason why the EU should set the example by not taking its water for granted. The 2000 Water Framework Directive sets ambitious goals for 2015 in this sense, but many recent European studies show it is unlikely they will be reached. Economic growth can and needs to be decoupled from any type of environmental harm to water. Let’s not wait until we make a belated observation on our incapacities to protect our most precious good. The upcoming revision of the WFD will be the opportunity to rapidly boost awareness and binding actions in favour of an integrated regional and global water management."@en1
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