[PASSED] A Convention on Freshwater Shortages

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[align=center]=115A Convention on Freshwater Shortages
Category: Environment || Area of Effect: All Businesses || Strength: Mild || Proposed by: Zone 71

• Establishing a limit on the annual freshwater footprint of certain industries;
• Instituting regular inspections of water pipelines of manufacturing companies, especially of water plants, to find and prevent the use of faulty or corroded piping, contamination of water, or the spillage of massive volumes of water;

4. Obligates member nations to educate the public on the causes and effects of water shortages, proper water usage, and practical methods of water conservation;

5. Recommends that member nations practice the following methods to effectively prevent water shortages:

• Creating irrigated agricultural basins, man-made depressions in the land engineered to collect run-off, to improve agricultural water productivity and irrigation efficiency;
• Collecting and recycling rainwater;
• Processing runoff and sewage into greywater;

6. Prohibits member nations or any businesses contained wherein from disposing hazardous waste into oceanic bodies, international waters, and the public drinking supply;

7. Extends the authority of the Joint Water Resources Management Panel to include:
Co-authored by Araraukar and Kenmoria

 

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Given the number of flaws in the proposal, the incredibly broad powers granted to the WA through clause 7d, and the optional nature of most of the clauses, I recommend voting against this resolution.

 

[Amerion]

I'm voting against because the sovereign state of Amerion shall not be bossed around by bureaucrats in suits.

 

[Milograd]

I abstain, obviously, but personally I would vote against this.

 

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The proposal has passed