Water, as a strategic issue of the 21st century, will be a national priority theme for Hungary during its EU presidency in the first half of 2011, the head of parliament’s environmental committee said at a conference on Tuesday.
The task during the presidency will be to draw attention to climate change and related issues, including draught and natural water shortages and, in particular, the protection of waterways, Andor Nagy told the two-day environmental conference that began in Balatonfured, W Hungary.
The issue is all the more important since water shortages already affect 17 percent of Europe, he said.
Another concern is water contamination from hazardous operations across the borders, said Nagy. Hungary will, during its presidency, initiate the drafting of a related EU directive, he said.
Another issue on which Hungary will put forward a proposal for a directive is on encouraging the sparing use of water, he said.
Read: How much we can get away with charging people for it, how
we can get away with dumping the sewage and waste without
paying for it, and how many summits, conferences, fact-finding
missions, reports, meetings, sessions on the drafting of a draft
directive etc. we can organise at tax payers expense while we jet
around the world, sit on our fat arses and stuff our faces, and
eventually reveal that a) water is wet, b) jolly important c)
somebody else’s problem and d) nothing can can be done.
Next.
@quatermass:
Welcome to the discussion and comments here!
Thanks for your insight – you probably, sadly are a 100% correct…