Topicality
USFG
(a) Central government in Washington, DC
(b) All 3 branches
SHOULD
(a) Ought
SUBSTANTIALLY
(a) of real worth or importance
(b) In the mail
(c) Without material qualification
(d) A certain percentage
INCREASE
(a) To make greater
WATER RESOURCES
IN
(a) “In” means “throughout”
(b) “In means “within”
UNITED STATES
(a) Everywhere
(b) Military resources
(c) federal lands
(d) Tribal areas
Advantages
Agriculture (article)
Health Harms
(a) General
(b) Small particulates
Environmental Harms
EPA Credibility
Racism/Environmental Justice
Terrorism
Water Shortages (article)
Water Wars
Cases — Federal
Tribes
Military Bases
Federal lands
Washington, DC
Puerto Rico
Cases — General
Climate adaptation (link)
Federal regulation of forever chemicals (link)
Fracking ban and federal standards for produced water (article)
Protecting water infrastructure from terrorism (article)
Cases — Security
Bioterrorism
Disadvantages
Business confidence
EPA Trade-Off/Overstretch
Federalism
Politics
(a) Political capital (immigration, infrastructure, stimulus IV?)
(b) Midterms
CO2 Ag
SO2 Screw
Kritiks
Anthropocentrism
Coercion
Afropessimism
Capitalism
Environment — Ecofeminism, Environmental Managerialism/Heidegger/Deep Ecology, Environmental Psychology, Social Ecology
Counterplans
Incentives (tax breaks)
States (Article)
Regulatory Negotiations (Reg-Neg)
Tax Penalties
Kritik Affs
Flint Pro Public article: The problem with Flint’s water began when a state-appointed emergency manager decided to leave Detroit’s water system. In 2014, while awaiting the construction of a new regional system, officials rebooted the city’s old treatment plant and used the Flint River as a water source. But the plant did not get the resources to properly treat the water. Most seriously, the water did not receive corrosion control, as required by federal law, causing pipes to break down. Brown water coming out of taps: that was corroded iron, or rust. Despite escalating concerns from residents, boil-water advisories and other red flags (the water so badly corroded machinery at a General Motors plant, the company switched to another city’s water system), it took large-scale organizing for a year and a half before the city returned to Detroit’s water system. By then, people had been exposed not only to high amounts of lead, a neurotoxin that is especially damaging to children, but a series of bacterial outbreaks. A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak officially sickened 90 and killed 12. As FRONTLINE documented, the number of those harmed by the outbreak is likely more….Many residents have drawn on lessons from the water crisis to build new models for democracy and public health. Their work includes an innovative program where community members help develop, vet and carry out research proposals from academics, bringing transparency along the way; a water lab in a refurbished school where residents, including young people, work with scientists to test their own drinking water; and an environmental justice movement, with teachings on using data and community organizing to rebuild crumbling infrastructure.
Article #2
Generic Negative Strategies
States counterplan with federalism, EPA overstretch/tradeoff, and Politics net-benefits
Incentives counteprlan with Business confidence, EPA overstretch, Politics, and Environmental Managerialism net-benefits