In this task, you are given a sentence in Spanish and your task is to translate it into English. In translation, keep the numbers and capitalization (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and name).

[EX Q]: Una parte muy importante, un tercio del agua potable que consumimos, se extrae en los Países Bajos de las aguas superficiales.
[EX A]: A very important component, to wit, one third of our drinking water, is extracted from surface water in the Netherlands.

[EX Q]: No puedo menos que congratularme por la adopción de estas directivas así modificadas, porque nos sería imposible tolerar por más tiempo que las personas establecidas legalmente en la Unión Europea se enfrenten a tantas dificultades.
[EX A]: I can, therefore, only be delighted at the adoption of these directives thus amended. We could not really tolerate much longer a situation in which people legally resident within the European Union had to face so many problems.

[EX Q]: Sin embargo, es evidente que esos países, empobrecidos en un sistema económico comunista, no pueden mantener una política social como, por ejemplo, la de Suecia.
[EX A]:
It is obvious, however, that these countries, impoverished within a Communist economic system, cannot cope with a social policy like, for example, Sweden' s.