Desalination affirmative for rupe invitational tournament. Jk, i'm just using this to download a super cool file on impacts for policy debate. I really hope this words.
Desalination affirmative for rupe invitational tournament. Jk, i'm just using this to download a super cool file on impacts for policy debate. I really hope this words.
Desalination affirmative for rupe invitational tournament. Jk, i'm just using this to download a super cool file on impacts for policy debate. I really hope this words.
Good afternoon. My name is Eric, this is my partner, Cedric. We are from
Bravo Medical Magnet High school, and in this debate we will be afrming the resoltion. !he resoltion we will be afrming is "esolved# desalination is the soltion to $othern Californias water crisis. !hroghot this debate, we hope to convince yo as to why desalination is the soltion, throgh the following paradigms# %ne, water shortage. !wo, economy. !hree, demand for water. We begin this debate with or &rst contention' water shortage. $bpoint ( is droghts. California crrently s)ers from one of its worst droghts in decades. *eter +imrite, an e,perienced reporter for the $an +rancisco Chronicle, has stated, California staggers toward a third droght'plaged smmer that will probably inclde rationing and lots of &ghting abot how the state shold se its precios, dwindling spplies of water Conditions get worse farther north as one goes in the $ierra and Cascade ranges. !he snowpac- is a paltry . percent of average in the northern part of the state. He also stated, when all the nmbers are crnched in a cople of days, they will show this year to be among the si, driest in the states recorded history. (lthogh droghts are no new thing to California, it contines present itself a brden and contines to contribte to the states dwindling water spply. !he crrent droght has broght abot nmeros impacts to the state. /t devastates Californias agricltre sector, along with its economy. Migel (lmager and 0aniel (r-in, two 1ornalists from 2BC news, have stated !he historic droght which Gov. 3erry Brown has called an 4nprecedented4 emergency has imperiled the region5s 677.. billion agricltre bsiness. /t cold cost the state 68.9 billion in 1ob income and 6:: billion in annal state revene, according to data from the California +arm Water Coalition, an indstry advocacy grop. Californias agricltre indstry contines to lose billions of dollars annally de to this droght. /t is li-ely to diminish as the droght contines to ravage the indstry. 0esalination is a sbstantially cheaper alternative than to contining to deal with the regions intense droghts. ( reliable sorce of fresh water is necessary to endre the worst of droghts. 0esalination o)ers a permanent soltion to $othern Californias crrent water crisis, along with any ftre droght as well. By tapping into previosly ntoched reserves of water, desalination provides an nlimited spply of water; enogh to thrive throgh any droght. <o have a legal obligation to provide a steady sorce of water, particlarly in the event of a droght, earth=a-e, or other national disasters. %verall, desalination is feasible, reliable, and sstainable. $bpoint B is the demand for water. (s $othern Californias demand for water inevitably increases, new and local water sorces are needed. 2ll, former lead forecaster for the national weather stated, We have to pt that in the conte,t of how mch water we are sing now for agricltre, for indstry, and for hmans. !here is more demand for the amont of water we have than there was in the :>.?s. By tapping into previosly ntoched water sorces, desalination o)ers a limitless spply of water to -eep p with the ever increasing demand. 2e,t we move on to or second contention economy. 0esalination will bene&t the economy throgh two main ways# %ne, 1ob creation. (nd two, by providing a cheaper alternative to the rising price of water importation. (s =oted from (BC :? 2ews, !he desalination plant being bilt in Carlsbad, Calif. will help create thosands of 1obs. !he plant will help many get bac- to wor- that have been nemployed for =ite some time. !he plant not only creates nmeros 1obs throgh constrction, bt thosands of permanent, and stable 1obs. 0esalination provides a mch needed boost to the recovering, bt still sha-y economy. $econdly, desalination prices have only dropped as time has progressed, and stdies show it will only contine to become cheaper. Brea-throghs in technology have cased it to become a viable alternative. +rther investment allows s to contine to develop the technology, allowing desalinations cost to become progressively cheaper. (n intensive stdy on the costs of desalination, made by Waterese association, has conclded that, !he cost of desalinated water has decreased signi&cantly over the last two decades; and, all indicators are that the costs associated with the technology will contine to decrease as technology and efciencies improve. !hey have also stated that, Most of the water tilities in $othern California crrently prchase imported water from the Bay 0elta and Colorado "iver at a rate of @$ 68.A? to 68.7B per :??? gallons, and the cost of these water spplies is very li-ely to increase by :BC or more throgh 8?:B. 0esalination has contined to see downward trends in its overall costs, and it will contine to decrease. /mportation, on the other hand, has contined to increase de to its increasing demand and water =ality re=irements. %verall, desalination is a very a)ordable alternative compared to not having a local spply of water.