39. Calls for strict implementation of existing waste water treatment standards and compulsory water management plans by operators, in cooperation with the drinking water companies and the competent authorities; stresses, however, that existing treatment plants are ill-equipped to treat hydraulic fracturing waste water and may be discharging pollutants into rivers and streams; considers, to this end, that a full assessment of all the relevant water treatment plants in the Member States concerned should be carried on by the competent authorities;

16. Suggests that the Action Plan and the EU budget include support for a sound South African energy security strategy taking into account climate change and its social and environmental impact on the poor in South Africa and the region, focusing inter alia on the development of renewable sources of energy, in particular small hydropower plants, wind energy and biomass;

16. Suggests that the Action Plan and the EU budget include support for a sound South African energy security strategy taking into account climate change and its social and environmental impact on the poor in South Africa and the region, focusing inter alia on the development of renewable sources of energy, in particular small hydropower plants, wind energy and biomass;

The price of bottled groundwater is at least one thousand times more expensive than the water that comes from the waterworks of European cities.

Operations The subprogrammes are as follows : Agriculture : 6.13 million ECU from the Community budget for the period 1986/88 Irrigation, especially for new products ; equipping fruit-packing stations and cooperatives ' wine cellars ; forestry development and improved access ; wood processing ; land restructuring and rural infrastructures ; training and technical back-up for farmers.

The project will support this by means of three separate operations: - updating the national water plan as a tool for medium- and long- term planning (i.e. spanning the periods 2000-2010/2030-2050) and for developing and using the country's water supply infrastructure; - increasing the protection of large dams in the interests of increasing their safety, by installing monitoring structures and methods compatible with the requirement that there be a rapid interpretation and diagnosis of the regular checks on the state of the structures (soundings); - the rehabilitation of sewage treatment plants by the appropriate national organizations, w ...[+++]hich will receive assistance from European specialists, thus bringing about a transfer of the necessary technology for renovating, operating and maintaining treatment works and revising the concepts of effluent treatment on the basis of efficient technology which is suited to local conditions.