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Bill: The Water for Life Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Moderate Voice of Reason Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 2441
Description[?]:
| Water is a source of life and we should make sure all water that flows from our nations taps is safe to drink. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Regulation of the quality of drinking water.
Old value:: The government does not regulate the quality of drinking water.
Current: The government sets a single standard to ensure all tap water is drinkable.
Proposed: The government sets a single standard to ensure all tap water is drinkable.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:38:25, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Ha'ganat Ha'aretz | To | Debating the The Water for Life Act |
| Message | The H.H. thinks "sure, why not?" |
| Date | 22:57:12, August 06, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the The Water for Life Act |
| Message | If private companies provide water that makes people ill, they can sue them. Therefore regulation is unneccessary. |
| Date | 23:27:16, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Pharaoh's People's Party | To | Debating the The Water for Life Act |
| Message | Yet a suit requires attourneys, which requires money, which is not availible to all. If the government were to set its own standard, however, it could prosecute companies which violate it, and would be able to ensure the safety of the citizens. |
| Date | 11:38:09, August 07, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the The Water for Life Act |
| Message | Yep, but the likehood is if one were to fall ill others would as well, so we doubt cost will be an issue. In any case, it is not the actual suing, but the fear of being sued the company has that will make them make sure their water is to an acceptable standard. |
| Date | 15:58:45, August 07, 2007 CET | From | Civil Liberty Persecution Complex Party | To | Debating the The Water for Life Act |
| Message | "If private companies provide water that makes people ill, they can sue them. Therefore regulation is unneccessary." Your libertarian ideal has no place in a basic human requirement, and that is the right to live. The fact that water is in our nation a commodity rather than government funded to be free to every person is an abomination. |
| Date | 16:05:10, August 07, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the The Water for Life Act |
| Message | Well dont get me wrong, a lot of people in this country are poor and do not have adequate clean water supplies piped in, but thats another issue. But in the cities the only difference would be people paying a company or people paying us for water. |
| Date | 19:21:05, August 07, 2007 CET | From | Civil Liberty Persecution Complex Party | To | Debating the The Water for Life Act |
| Message | That is not what this bill is suggesting and that you are twisting it to say so is an illustration of short sightedness. The bill simply states that it is law that all tap water is drinkable, not that the government is going to run the water company. |
| Date | 19:22:57, August 07, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the The Water for Life Act |
| Message | "The fact that water is in our nation a commodity rather than government funded to be free to every person is an abomination." You brought up the nationlisation of water services, not us. This bill is unneccessary is our point. |
| Date | 21:48:42, August 07, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Voice of Reason Party | To | Debating the The Water for Life Act |
| Message | A national guarantee and oversight of one of our most precious resources seems the only conscionable choice our nations leaders can take. It is not only a question of health, but a question of morals. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 6 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 55 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 14 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life fictional references (eg. Gandalf, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker). |
| Random quote: "What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." - Gandhi |