PlayPump International's PlayPump solves for all major public health problems in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Thanks to polishgrilinar for making this debate and I ask that the voters to vote on who made the better arguements, not your personal opinion. With that said, I negate, "PlayPump International's PlayPump solves for all major public health problems in Sub-Saharan Africa." 1. Playpumps can CLEARLY not solve ALL major public health problems in SSA. My opponent mentions Malaria, but the fact is mosquitos exist almost everywhere. 1 in 4 cases of Malaria are contracted in the home at night. My opponent also mentions AIDS, but AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease. He proposes that they 'can take water with their medication.' My opponent fails to recognize that the MEDICATION is what is easing the disease. Even if he were to say that water is medication, there is no cure for HIV/AIDS, so all arguments would not apply to this resolution. 2. Play Pumps can cost as much as $14,000.00 a piece in US Dollars for Sub-Saharan Africa. Either A: This will cost too much or B: He will not provide enough Playpumps needed for SSA. 3. Playpumps can not be placed everywhere. Where are these going to be built? How will people know about them? My opponent's plan does not solve the transportation issue- that is, no one will be able to get to the playpumps, or it will become inefficent to even go to the pump. So far, the water initiative has only reached 10% of SSA with 700 playpumps over a three year period. (http://www.euwi.net...) Moreover, Local groups get ignored in water scarcity solutions C.S.I.S. 05 Center for Strategic Int'l Studies – Sandia National Laboratory ["Global Water Futures: Addressing Our Global Water Future," 9/30/05, White Paper, http://www.sandia.gov...] "The mere existence of regulatory rules and policies, however, means little if these frameworks are undermined by power politics, entrenched interests, a lack of funding, or the absence of local communities from the decision making process (UNESCO-WWAP 2003). In countries where water management is largely centralized, many local water issues are trumped by the larger national interest. As a result, the voices of many vital local stakeholders (indigenous people, the poor, women, etc.) are stifled. In other countries where power has devolved from the center, the responsibility for water management has been transferred to the local level but the actual power to make decisions, particularly on financial matters, has proven much harder to separate from the central government–a contradiction that leads to poor governance (GWP 2004). To avoid these pitfalls, many experts currently argue that water should be managed at the lowest appropriate level of governance, to ensure greater accountability and provide solutions specific to the needs of the community or region." 4. This does not solve- agriculture and industry will continue to be wasteful by using excess quantities of water DEVI and HARVEY, 6(SHARMILA DEVI and FIONA HARVEY, Financial Times (London), March 21, "Liquid asset? Why drought overshadows world growth WATER: A race is on to broker international solutions before increasingly acute water shortages bring economic disaster, writes Fiona Harvey"; Pg. 13) "In addition, the demands of modern agriculture are remorseless. It takes 1,000 tonnes of water to produce a tonne of grain. Industry is also thirsty: activities from food processing to semiconductor manufacturing and garment-making require vast quantities of water - a big factor in rapidly industrialising countries." 5. Procurement and Tendering make water the most prone to corruption. Elshorst and O'Leary, 5 (Hansjoerg, Donal, World Water Week in Stockholm, "Corruption in the Water Sector: Opportunities for Addressing a Pervasive Problem," August 27, http://www.siwi.org...) "Procurement and tendering is particularly prone to corruption if the products offered cannot be standardised. It is for this reason that the construction sector leads the world's hit-list of corruption-prone activities 7. Standardisation is also difficult if natural conditions affect the technical specifications and quantities of a project. Both elements often are combined in waterrelated projects, which make these projects even more susceptible to corruption than projects in other sectors with easily controllable unit-prices and specifications." 6. Politicizing water has undermines its effectiveness Elshorst and O'Leary, 5 PREVIOUSLY CITED "The relevance of the political dimension of water is passionately contested. For NGOs water is life. Access to water is a human right, to provide it is a basic obligation of the public sector. For many officials in the field, making water a political issue, mobilising the political power embedded in it, is a big part of the problem. It blocks economic pricing and responsible use; in addition, the distribution of water-services has frequently been biased in favour of those with political influence. Also, political factors have discouraged investment and private sector involvement." 7. Resource shortages can never be sustained—they will be depleted—extinction will happen in our life time. Godesky 1/12/06, employee at Vivismo—data-mining software company for high-profile enterprises (Jason, "Thesis 26: Collapse is inevitable" http://anthropik.com...) "Nothing can grow forever in a finite world. That basic truism is the ultimate doom for civilization. Its very nature will not permit it to exist in a steady state; it must grow. If it is not growing, it is dying. If the economy is not growing, and most investments will have negative returns, who is willing to invest? Without investment, how can we build the infrastructure to continue the civilized life--the roads, telephony, satellites or buildings we need now, much less the investments in future technology and complexity we will need to continue such a pace? That makes investment in complexity even less compelling, since there is no one else investing in it, either, and its total cost must be divided among fewer investors. Being the last one "holding the door," so to speak, is the worst possible strategy. The snowball may take some time to build up, but ultimately, if investment in complexity were a traded stock, collapse works in much the same way as a "run." Thus, the "point of no return" in the collapse of any society is when an increasing percentage of the population begins to believe that further complexity is no longer worth it. That fringe always exists, in small numbers; collapse comes when that fringe begins to grow. As such, we can see the first signs of collapse in the growth of primitivism itself. The spread of ideas like slow food, voluntary simplicity, Ethan Watters' Urban Tribes, or "The Hunter-Gatherers of the Knowledge Economy"--even less obvious attacks on complexty, like open source and blogging--show a general discontent with the current level of complexity, and a growing antipathy for further investment in it. Much of the world has already collapsed, but are propped up now only by the peer polity system they are enmeshed in. The following map shows those countries in red, showing how far along in the process of collapse we already are. In collapse, all the rules reverse themselves. Sustainabilty becomes not only feasible, but advantageous. Small, egalitarian groups out-compete large, hierarchical ones. Human nature becomes adaptive, rather than something we must suppress. That process is the inevitable end of any civilization, because nothing can grow forever and without limit in a finite universe. Moreover, that process will begin sooner, rather than later. It has already begun, and in all likelihood, most of us alive today will live to see its completion." Thank you, I now await my opponent's response.