Legislation will be brought forward to provide a fair basis for water charging in England and Wales.

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"We want to ensure that farmers and growers in the region have access to a fair share of water resources and enjoy equal status with other users, given their vital role as producers, " he said.

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You need rights to food, employment, water, justice and fair wages.

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In Ningxia, Gansu and Inner Mongolia, for example, they are drawing far more than their fair share of the Yellow River's water.

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These firms should be paying their fair share of the bounty they get from our lands and water.

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Ceredigion AM Ms Jones said Wales should have control of its natural resources, including the right to export water to the rest of the UK "at a fair price".

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It applauds ministers' commitment to tackle unsustainable abstraction from rivers and wetlands, extend the use of metering at a fair price and develop a catchment-based approach to managing the water environment.

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As for increased use of water metering, the consumer body described the concept as fair but stopped short of supporting the compulsory installation of meters across the whole of England and Wales.

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"Through fair trade, we have been able to develop our community with investments in our water supply, and ways to improve our living conditions, " he said.

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