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).
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Question: Una parte muy importante, un tercio del agua potable que consumimos, se extrae en los Países Bajos de las aguas superficiales.

Answer: A very important component, to wit, one third of our drinking water, is extracted from surface water in the Netherlands.


Question: Hay algunas enmiendas que se ocupan de mejorar la propuesta de la Comisión , ya aprobadas en la primera lectura, y otras que recuperan partes de la propuesta original que el Consejo ha eliminado.

Answer: Certain amendments concern improvements to the Commission' s proposal which we adopted as early as at the first reading or else they reintroduce into the directive such parts of the original proposal as the Council has removed.


Question: Quisiera abordar, por lo tanto, el presente debate en el contexto de los conflictos que tenemos planteados actualmente en el seno de la Unión Europea.

Answer:
I refer to the current debate on the present conflicts in the European Union.