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	1	+1nc
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	3	+Water DA
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	5	+Global water shortage is higher than ever, new studies take everyone into account and show us that this is a global issue we never realized.
	6	+Bellware 2k16 Kim Bellware, 2-15-2016, "Global Water Shortage Risk Is Worse Than Scientists Thought," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/water-scarcity-study_us_56c1ebc5e4b0b40245c72f5e
	7	+The growing risk of worldwide water shortages is worse than scientists previously thought, according
	8	+AND
	9	+part of their food from the affected areas, it involves us all.”
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	11	+Offshore SMRs allowed now and desalinate key to solving water crises worldwide.
	12	+WNA 2k16 New Technologies for Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Energy, TecDoc 1753, International Atomic Energy Agency (January 2015) updated in 2k16 by World Nuclear Association
	13	+Small and medium sized nuclear reactors are suitable for desalination, often with cogeneration of
	14	+AND
	15	+20 countries, is expected to enable further cost reductions of nuclear desalination.
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	17	+Lack of water causes structural violence and death; root cause for disease and conflict
	18	+Rasmussen 09 (Britt Debes Rasmussen-Aalborg University: Development and International Relations, “The Impacts of Water Scarcity on the Prospects for Poverty Alleviation, and the Role of Development Aid in this,” 31 June 2009, http://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/files/17815112/water_scarcity__poverty__and_development_aid.docx, XM)
	19	+Water scarcity affects people all over the planet but it is particularly disastrous to the
	20	+AND
	21	+, and perhaps most importantly hindering the production of food and thereby development.
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	23	+Thus the CP:
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	25	+Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power except for offshore small modular reactors.
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	27	+Offshore SMR’s are the only viable source of desalination
	28	+Science Daily 7 – Science News Source(“Could Nuclear Power Be The Answer To Fresh Water?”, Nov 20, 2007, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071120082429.htm, Daehyun)
	29	+Scientists are working on new solutions to the ancient problem of maintaining a fresh water
	30	+AND
	31	+-scale seawater desalination for economic production of fresh water," he says.
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	33	+Solves the aff - Contextualize
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	35	+The counterplan is feasible and safe – only offshore avoids nuclear meltdowns
	36	+Chandler 14 – Mit News Office(David, “Floating nuclear plants could ride out tsunamis”, Apr 6, 2014, http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/floating-nuclear-plants-could-ride-out-tsunamis-0416, Daehyun)
	37	+When an earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant complex in 2011,
	38	+AND
	39	+Alan Crowle of Chicago Bridge and Iron, based in Canton, Mass.
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	41	+Climate Change DA
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	43	+Banning nuclear destroys our ability to stop climate change; we claim a switch to renewable but end up using fossil fuels because they are the most accessible. Every instance worldwide has proved. Nordhaus 2k16
	44	+Ted Nordhaus, 7-15-2016, "Without nuke power, climate change threat grows: Column," USA TODAY, http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/07/15/nuclear-diablo-canyon-plant-closing-energy-power-california-environmentalists-column/87090886/ Ted Nordhaus is the executive director of the Breakthrough Institute. Ray Rothrock, CEO of Red Seal and a former president of the National Venture Capital Association, has been an investor in a number of next generation nuclear technologies.
	45	+The announcement last month that California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric company,
	46	+AND
	47	+. Without nuclear energy there is little prospect of meaningfully addressing climate change.
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	49	+SMR’s are key to solve climate change Lovering et al 2012
	50	+Michael, – et al and Ted Nordhaus—co-founders of American Environics and the Breakthrough Institute a think tank that works on energy and climate change – AND – Jesse Jenkins-Director of Energy and Climate Policy, the Breakthrough Institute, Why We Need Radical Innovation to Make New Nuclear Energy Cheap, 9/11, thebreakthrough.org/index.php/programs/energy-and-climate/new-nukes/
	51	+Arguably, the biggest impact of Fukushima on the nuclear debate, ironically, has
	52	+AND
	53	+than developing the nuclear technologies we will need to get that job done.
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	55	+Global warming definitively causes extinction
	56	+Sharp and Kennedy 14 – (Associate Professor Robert (Bob) A. Sharp is the UAE National Defense College Associate Dean for Academic Programs and College Quality Assurance Advisor. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Strategic Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) in the U.S. National Defense University (NDU), Washington D.C. and then as Associate Professor at the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies, collocated with NDU. Most recently at NESA, he focused on security sector reform in Yemen and Lebanon, and also supported regional security engagement events into Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and Qatar; Edward Kennedy is a renewable energy and climate change specialist who has worked for the World Bank and the Spanish Electric Utility ENDESA on carbon policy and markets; 8/22/14, “Climate Change and Implications for National Security,” International Policy Digest, http://intpolicydigest.org/2014/08/22/climate-change-implications-national-security/)
	57	+Our planet is 4.5 billion years old. If that whole time was
	58	+AND
	59	+investment patterns, and political decisions; it will be hard to fix!
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	61	+Renewables and nuclear aren’t zero-sum
	62	+Vine 14 – Senior Energy Fellow at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions(Doug, “CLIMATE SOLUTIONS: THE ROLE OF NUCLEAR POWER”, Apr 28, 2014, http://www.c2es.org/publications/climate-solutions-role-nuclear-power, Daehyun)
	63	+In summary, policies like the PTC and state renewable portfolio standards have been critical
	64	+AND
	65	+it may become necessary to reconsider the way in which wholesale markets function.

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Judge

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	1	+Matt Conrad

Opponent

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	1	+Jack Stern

ParentRound

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	1	+8

Round

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	1	+6

Team

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	1	+Torrey Pines Kaiyom Neg

Title

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	1	+SeptOct CP with NBs

Tournament

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	1	+Loyola