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"Mr President, the Commission’s consultation on water closes next week so today, as a new Member, I am pleased to support the work done by everyone in this Parliament and beyond on the Right to Water Campaign. Partnerships with the private sector for expertise, innovation and research can be beneficial, but exploitation of water resources for commercial profit is not.
In my city of London we are still facing first-hand, through massive water bill rises, the shocking consequences of privatisation. We have a poorly-regulated monopoly private provider of water which last year paid well over EUR 100 million in dividends and interest payments to shareholders, and in the countries hardest hit by recession our own institutions in the EU have been attempting to insist on water privatisation despite international evidence against it.
It is time for the Commission to be bold. We want no more excuses about the lack of legal base or application of principles of neutrality. EU-wide measures to promote democratic public control of water are the only answer."@en1
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