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This initiative has collected almost 1.9 million signatures across Europe. As the first formal successful ECI, it was discussed on 17.2.2014 in the European Parliament in the presence of the initiators, whose target it was to exempt water and sanitation services from the "liberalisation" of the EU Single Market. Water is a human right, which should not be left to the constraints of a free market, but which should be available in sufficient quantities as a basic right for all citizens. This is not only about drinking water, but concerns the entire sanitary area.
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