The EU must urgently address water shortages and find new ways to finance improvements to its leaky pipes, the bloc’s environment commissioner has said.
Jessika Roswall, who took up the role in December, told the Financial Times that the EU’s relentless focus on securing energy after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine had come at the expense of efforts to address a water supply crisis that was set to have a big impact on business.
“We have talked too little about water and we have talked about energy efficiency and energy, energy, energy. This is really important, of course, but water is also really important and we have a scarcity in Europe,” she said.
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