Title: Plumbum Problems
Discussion:
Little @@CAPITAL@@, a city located in the midwestern region of the country, recently decided against renewing their water contract from the Provincial Government and went with getting water from the neighboring river instead. At first things seemed to be going perfectly- jobs were created, the water seemed fine, and citizens were happier- until the populous noticed that the water started to taste weird. After chemical analysis showed that the water was 40% lead, the city has been placed under emergency management until the situation handles itself out.
Validity: nations with low environmental beauty
Debate:
[option]"This lead contamination has resulted in the death of 10 children and another 77 seeking treatment, and thousands more were exposed." points out @@RANDOMNAME@@, the Head of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Emergency Response Team, while showing you pictures of those affected by the lead poisoning. "We must shut down all of the water that flows into the city and supply everyone with bottles of clean drinking water until we find out how the problem occurred and is fixed. It may cost a boatload of @@CURRENCY@@s, but the safety of our citizens is of dire importance here."
[effect]water costs fifty @@CURRENCY@@s a bottle during times of crisis
[option]"That is not going to answer the problem at hand." explains your Minister of Water and Septic Management. "That river that is pumping water into the city has been tested by my team and the results are shocking. They show that not only is the water 40% lead, but it is also 50% human excrement, turned up an ancient burial ground underneath the bank, and has a pH of 2. That water is the very definition of toxic! The best thing to do would be making the city renew their water contract with the provincial government and shut down the pipeline from the river. Maybe then water quality would be better."
[effect]cities wanting to get water from rivers have to first go through rigorous safety concerns
[option]"It's all your fault, @@LEADER@@!" screams the Mayor of Little @@CAPITAL@@. "The public sector has failed us for the last time. If water was privatized, then none of this would have happened in the first place. The private sector knows best when it comes to handling matters of necessities, so only they should handle these sort of things. I may be a politician, but I'm a business person first. Down with government, up with businesses. Give me water, or give me death!'
[effect]the private sector controls all of the water in @@NAME@@
[option]"That's exactly what you would say you thief!" demands @@RANDOMNAME@@ while pointing at the mayor. "You're just blaming others to avoid the fact that this whole thing is all your fault in the first place. It was you who rejected renewing the contract, and it was you who suggested the river as our water source, and now you are blaming others who had nothing to do with the problem! You should be impeached, have all of your assets seized for repatriations to the city, and then you should be locked up in prison and rot there until the day you die!"
[effect]politicians get incarcerated without parole just for having a parking ticket
[option]"I don't see what everyone's problem is." questions @@RANDOMMALENAME@@ while drinking brown water. "A little plumbum never killed anyone of importance before. This whole issue is just an over exaggeration. The people should just forget about it and go on with their daily lives." He takes another drink. "Ah. Nothing better than a little esophageal scrapping in the morning."
[effect]drinking mud has been labelled healthier than the drinking water
