Establish UNWCC

History of the Resolution

This resolution was originally achieved quorum with over 300 UN Delegate endorsements, under the name Third World Water Recycling. However, the UN Secretariat ended up removing the proposed resolution from the proposal queue due to a misclassification of the original resolution. The original draft was proposed as Human Rights resolution.

The current draft only went through cosmetic changes and was reclassified as a Social Justice resolution.

Text of the Resolution

The United Nations,

OBSERVING the neglect of the basic Human Right to sanitary water;

NOTING that lack of sanitary water is the leading cause of death in third world countries;

FURTHER NOTING the absence of past resolutions in favor of sanitary water and its accessibility;

IN THE INTEREST OF providing third world regions with sanitary water;

1. ESTABLISHES a new UN funded committee of scientists and engineers, the United Nations Water Cleansing Committee (UNWCC), to use the sewage and waste water pumped in from surrounding areas to create fresh, sanitary water by means of plant life;

2. AUTHORIZES the committee to create artificial oases and reserves which will hold water and use hydroponic plants to cleanse the waste-water of all phosphorous, nitrates, salts, and ammonia which render it unfit for human consumption;

3. BELIEVES WITH SCIENTIFIC MERIT that the water, having been cleansed by these plants, will be sanitary enough for those disadvantaged peoples who previously had limited access to quality water; and

4. SUGGESTS that the establishment of the UNWCC would further human rights and raise the quality of life for millions of people.

Votes For: 10,391

Votes Against: 4,047

Implemented: Mon Jul 28 2004

Additional Materials

• United Nations
• UN Timeline
• Establish UNWCC UN Floor Debate
• Third World Water Recycling Draft Proposal Discussion

Discussion on Gameplay Impacts

Since the Game Moderators originally did not catch the misclassification of the original resolution, no official warning was issued to the authoring nation, Sunteria. Instead, they helped Sunteria by providing a list of nations that had endorsed the original resolution, which Sunteria and others used to telegram campaign for the revised proposal. The revised proposal had no further problems.