Repeal “Establish UNWCC” (The United Nations Old Guard)

Title: Repeal “Establish UNWCC”

Yelda - August 23, 2006 05:18 AM (GMT)

I've resubmitted my repeal of “Establish UNWCC”

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Description: UN Resolution #114: Establish UNWCC (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGING the principle of the basic Human Right to sanitary water;

APPLAUDING the efforts of the authors of UN Resolution #114, “Establish UNWCC”;

CONCERNED, however, with the validity of the scientific arguments used in support of UN Resolution #114, specifically:
A) The questionable claim that “sewage and waste water pumped in from surrounding areas” can serve as a viable source of clean drinking water.
B) The further claim that artificial oases and reserves using “hydroponic plants” can adequately cleanse the wastewater and sewage, making it safe for human consumption.

FURTHER, believing that there are more conventional and scientifically proven methods of providing safe drinking water;

WISHING to remove UN Resolution #114 so as to make way for suitable replacement legislation;

HEREBY repeals UN Resolution #114, “Establish UNWCC”.

Approvals: 1 (Nevadar)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sat Aug 26 2006

Approval link

Kivisto - August 23, 2006 02:10 PM (GMT)

Were I a delegate, I would approve it.

Jey - August 23, 2006 08:21 PM (GMT)

Approved.

Yelda - September 30, 2006 04:10 AM (GMT)

Well, I submitted it again and:

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Status: Quorum Reached: In Queue!

With a day to spare still. So what did I do right this time that I didn't do last time? I did reword it a bit:

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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGING the principle of the basic Human Right to sanitary water;

APPLAUDING the efforts of the authors of UN Resolution #114, “Establish UNWCC”;

CONCERNED, however, with the validity of the scientific arguments used in support of UN Resolution #114, specifically:
A) The claim that “sewage and waste water pumped in from surrounding areas” can serve as a reliable source of safe drinking water.
B) The further claim that artificial oases and reserves using “hydroponic plants” can adequately cleanse the wastewater and sewage, making it safe for human consumption.

UNCONVINCED that these methods represent the most efficient and economical means of delivering safe drinking water, particularly in developing nations and areas where sanitary sewage systems are non-existent;

FURTHER, believing that there are more conventional and scientifically proven methods of providing safe drinking water;

HEREBY repeals UN Resolution #114, “Establish UNWCC”.

And I sent a different TG, but still it's basically the same repeal that failed to reach quorum two times in a row.

Tzorsland - September 30, 2006 04:54 PM (GMT)

Congratulations for having it make quorum!

I'm sure everyone has heard the old psudo-argumment/joke that everytime a person uses bad science in a resolution god kills a cat-girl. Does this mean that if a resolution that has bad science in it is repealed, there's going to be this big resurrection of cat-girls?

Yes this resolution has got to go. Even in current tech this is bad science. I know some sewer treament people in another forum. I'll ask their technical advise as to why this resolution is potentially harmful to people and we can use it for the repeal process.

Yelda - September 30, 2006 06:27 PM (GMT)

QUOTE (Tzorsland)

Does this mean that if a resolution that has bad science in it is repealed, there's going to be this big resurrection of cat-girls?

That is one of the goals of the repeal.

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Even in current tech this is bad science. I know some sewer treament people in another forum. I'll ask their technical advise as to why this resolution is potentially harmful to people and we can use it for the repeal process.

The method prescribed in UNWCC can be made to work. The problem though is that it is a fairly expensive process to get established. It relies on the existence of a working sewer system to convey the sewage to the treatment site. It might be a viable option for advanced nations that already have the infrastructure in place to support it, but it's not really a good option for third world nations, the very people UNWCC was intended to help. If the goal is to provide disadvantaged people with safe drinking water there are much better ways of doing that.

Ariddia - October 1, 2006 09:55 AM (GMT)

Loathe as I am to see a environmental/social justice resolution repealed, this one was quite thoroughly flawed, so I'll probably support the repeal.

Would anyone here be able to write a replacement without the bad science and excessive strain on weak economies?

Yelda - October 1, 2006 03:50 PM (GMT)

QUOTE (Ariddia @ Oct 1 2006, 04:55 AM)

Hirota has a proposal called Right to Water that we were looking at as a replacement for this. It hasn't been worked on since back in August but if this repeal passes I'm sure he'll be willing to bring it back out.

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