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Rencontre entre Pedro Arrojo-Agudo @PericoArrojo rapporteur spécial de l'ONU pour le droit à l'eau et @OdyMorgan coordinatrice de @via_campesina
«Il est essentiel de lutter contre les pollutions et le gaspillage de l'eau lié à l'agriculture industrielle» #UNDROP #Right2Water
«Il est essentiel de lutter contre les pollutions et le gaspillage de l'eau lié à l'agriculture industrielle» #UNDROP #Right2Water
An incredibly sloppy and prejudiced piece of journalism from @harrymcgee in todays @IrishTimes. The media's continued pursuit of domestic water charges is tantamount to lobbying at this stage. The WFD does NOT require Ireland to impose domestic water charges.
What it does do is require governments to charge commercial companies like Britvic (Ballygowan, Club) abstraction charges. Currently there are no limits on water extracted & no minimum fee for taking public water. This is arguably a breach of WFD, but yet nothing from media?
And while the headline for todays article says, "Water charges of €500 may be in pipeline for those who waste," again, portraying the Irish public as some sort of delinquents with water usage, the gov's own expert commission said the following:
