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Bill: The Drinking Water Bill

Details

Submitted by^[?]: Anarchist Party of Lodamun

Status^[?]: passed

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: May 2586

Description^[?]:

All tap water must be drinkable. We must look out for our citizens.

Proposal^[?] to change Regulation of the quality of drinking water.

Old value:: Local government is responsible for drinking water quality regulation.

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.

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date	19:59:37, June 02, 2008 CET
From	The Liberal Party
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	It is impossible for our government to inspect every inch of pipes in our country. One, it is too expensive. Two, we don't have the manpower to do so. We are very sure that local governments are making sure their citizens are getting drinkable water, they are taxpayers, remember? Unless there is an epidemic of some kind or a big problem, we cannot support this bill.

Date	20:03:28, June 02, 2008 CET
From	Anarchist Party of Lodamun
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	inspect every single pipe? it isn't about the pipes but about the water. to have the proper facilities to decontaminate the water, etc. if the government won't do it, why would local governments? :/

Date	20:09:12, June 02, 2008 CET
From	The Liberal Party
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	OOC: When I refer to government in this debate, I mean national government because we are in Parliament debating this. Figuratively speaking, pipes must be inspected. Every inch cannot be inspected, of course, that is know. It doesn't matter how pure the water is if a pipe is broken and there is outside contamination. It is about the facilities to decontaminate the water but more importantly the way water is carried to the homes of our citizens. Local government will provide good water to their citizens because they wouldn't want any infections to spread out and kill their citizens, that is common sense. If in any way, local governements don't do a good job, the national government will step in and fix the problems.

Date	20:12:43, June 02, 2008 CET
From	Anarchist Party of Lodamun
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	well, but then we'd be allowing them not to do a good job. The government can do exactly the same as the local governments and with more resources. It would probably not be possible to take care of the whole country at once, but with time they would do a better job.

Date	20:21:04, June 02, 2008 CET
From	The Liberal Party
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	Local governments know better about their own territory. Like I said, there hasn't been any case to this day of poisoning or death by infection because of polluted water. I am not saying the government can't do it but local governments do it better and cheaper. OOC: I voted yes but I intended to vote no.

Date	20:45:42, June 02, 2008 CET
From	Lodamun Libertarian Party
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	I dont trust any government to regulate anything, but atleast local governments are the lesser of two evils in this matter

Date	20:55:22, June 02, 2008 CET
From	The Liberal Party
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	Let it to private companies to do it. Yes, that is a good option (sarcasm included).

Date	21:26:20, June 02, 2008 CET
From	Lodamun Libertarian Party
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	Private companies should self regulate the services they provide, and if you dont like the services they provide pick another company

Date	21:28:15, June 02, 2008 CET
From	The Liberal Party
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	The thing is, water is provided by the government, not private companies.

Date	22:18:00, June 02, 2008 CET
From	Lodamun Libertarian Party
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	Well that can proarbly be changed

Date	22:27:37, June 02, 2008 CET
From	The Liberal Party
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	Until then, I am sorry.

Date	14:24:41, June 03, 2008 CET
From	Anarchist Party of Lodamun
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	When private companies are in charge of providing water, you'll have to start paying for a glass of water at a caf�.

Date	17:26:23, June 03, 2008 CET
From	Lodamun Libertarian Party
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	Your anarchist and at the same time you want a government?

Date	18:49:56, June 03, 2008 CET
From	Anarchist Party of Lodamun
To	Debating the The Drinking Water Bill
Message	Obviously, Anarchy isn't possible overnight. So we've got to go for the next best thing that leads there. The Health of the people is of the utmost importance. or just imagine it this way: it's better to have a nazi government that maintains a safe water supply than one that doesn't. ;)

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abstain

Total Seats: 22

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