The lack of water or its poor quality kills 10 times more people than all the wars combined.

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Let us declare the right to water, without ambiguity, as an essential element of human dignity.

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It is our democratic obligation to ensure that water management and decentralization go hand-in-hand. Public authorities should always have the power to set rates and determine investments, as it is only these strong and accountable local authorities that can work with companies from both the public and private sectors in an efficient and competent manner.

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There is plenty of water on the planet, but every year its per capita availability diminishes.

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A lot of poor people are leaving their countries to go to rich countries. Isn't it preferable, isn't it cheaper, to pay so that these people have water, sewage, energy, to keep open the possibility for them to stay in their (own) countries?

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