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

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

We want man to once more become a friend of water, so let's hurry up, as there is extreme urgency.

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.

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

Mr. Schiavo's overriding concern was Mrs. Schiavo has a right and had a right to die with dignity and die in peace. She had a right to have her last and final moments on this Earth be experienced by a spirit of love and not of acrimony.