ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
November 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament's environment committee has called for the European Union to have a comprehensive water pricing policy, with meters being installed on farms, industry and private households across its territory.A report adopted by its MEP's says that such a move is crucial, if the threat of acute water shortages over the coming decades is to be averted. That said, the paper rejected establishing an EU authority to oversee water pricing and opposed further liberalisation of European water markets.Written by Austrian Christian Democrat MEP ...
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