1 Amendments of Javier NART related to 2021/2187(INI)
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that access to safe drinking water is one of the major problems of the XXI century, especially since nearly 60% of aquifer resources cross political territorial borders; also stresses that the water stress resulting from the increased freshwater needs of the world's population faced with strategic control of rivers at their source by some countries (China, Turkey, Israel and occupied territories, Ethiopia-Uganda- Sudan) can lead to the most serious conflicts, if the use of flows in an integrated and shared manner is not envisaged; calls on the European Union to establish a political strategy to facilitate solutions in these areas of high destabilizing potential and encourage the countries situated in the most important areas of conflict related to water to sign the 1992 Helsinki Water Convention completed in New York in 1997 on the protection and use of cross-border waterways and international lakes;