Middle School Debate Tournament - May 15, 2015

hello and welcome to the 2015 Collier County middle school scholar bowl debate tournament I would like to welcome our audience here at the dr. Martin Luther King junior administration center and also our audience watching us on the education Channel this is the third televised Collier County Middle School debate finale I am Ashley cook the Collier County Public Schools coordinator of academic competitions it is my pleasure to be here today and I'm looking forward to being a judge for your match the debate program is designed to recognize and challenge Collier counties academically talented middle school students each team competes to persuade a panel of citizen judges to vote for its side of the resolution this is done through a series of speeches and Crossfire's that are also known as debates we use the public forum debate format the public forum debate format has each team develop both a pro and con case to support their side of the case students use effective persuasion evidence which may include a mix of facts statistics expert quotations studies and polls students may also include relevant real-life examples anecdotes analogies and personal experiences then it is up to the judges to simply decide disregarding all previous ideas and notions about the subject which side was in the end the most persuasive during the entire process this program helps students practice and focus on important education and life skills they are required to pull key ideas and details from texts right and deliver arguments to support claims integrate and evaluate information orally evaluate a speaker's point of view and adapt speech to a variety of communication tasks our other goals include promoting rigor confidence presentation skills higher-order thinking ability and academic fun I would also like to welcome our teams and congratulate them for their hard work and dedication that help them to reach today's finale this year we had ten Collier County Publix the middle schools participating in our debate program the students have been practicing with their amazing coaches all year this morning the top four teams from the prep practice match this year competed in two more matches those who are East Naples middle North Naples middle oak ridge middle and Pine Ridge middle the top two teams from those matches were invited back to compete now in this finale let's go ahead and meet our two teams who will be participating for first and second-place district-wide we will start with our team from East Naples middle I would like to introduce you to the coach Jorge me of a Chevalier all right let's introduce the East Naples little school debate team here I have Ana trailer she is an eighth grader who has also competed in scholar bowl and this is her first year with debate I have Logan zettai who has also competed in Scholar Bowl this is his second year with our debate team he is a seventh grader and I have Taylor Brewer who is an eighth grader has done track and she has competed in debate for two years okay great thank you very much our second team is from North Naples middle school they were coached by Kathleen Piper oh oh yeah I need my son proud to introduce this is Kiley Campbell she is a sixth grader this is her first year in debate she is also an active member of our school student council we have Cynthia Padgett she is a seventh grader it is her first year on debate and she is very active in track and other sports activities and we have Lexi Piper this is her third year in debate and outside of school she enjoys acting okay thank you very much I'm good luck to both of our teams now let's meet the judges for this match they will introduce themselves and let you know if they're representing any organizations they're in Trumbull representing the Florida Council for the social studies Kathy Ryan retired Collier County educator representing the American Association of University Women Laura Perry gifted curriculum specialist Advanced Studies and gifted learners Department for Collier County Public Schools I'll let you know we have the best judges the best volunteers in our program so thank you all for being here as we begin our match I would like to give you a quick overview of what to expect the three debaters from each team will take turns giving a speech and then participating in a crossfire we then move to the summary rebuttal speeches and the grand crossfire which includes all students the final focus will end the debate as a debater from each team will sum up the team's position for this final match the students will be debating this resolution resolved with current levels of sustainable practices the future of water in the United States is secure students do you have any questions before we begin okay and just before the match started we and conducted a coin toss which decides which team will be Pro which will be con which will be first or which will be second that determine the East Naples middle we'll take the pro stance and North Naples middle we'll take the con stance it also determined that use Naples middle will speak first and North Naples middle will speak second again the resolution resolved with current levels of sustainable practices the future of water in the United States is secure okay I'll give you a moment to get ready and teams and then I'll turn the podium over to you again best of luck constructive speech first speaker team a three minutes hello my name is Anna Chawla and I'm representing East Naples middle school I believe that with current levels of sustainable practices the future water in the United States is secure according to drink tap org water conserving fixtures installed in the United States households in 1998 alone have saved 44 million gallons of water everyday these new fixtures such as faucets showerheads toilets dishwashers and clothes washers say more than half of the water old models old models used previously one program that contributes greatly to this household water conservation is WaterSense even bigger than the faucets and household appliances we have no more Dust Bowl effect in the Midwestern regions we have more crops and better irrigation systems these irrigation levels haven't been so low since 1965 these irrigation systems have improved so much in fact that with that the withdrawals improved from 1965 to 2005 and even in 2013 we had 13 percent less withdrawals than from 2005 even in other categories where we use withdrawals they've been at an all-time low since 1970 we wouldn't see these levels at the sustainable practices we've been using aren't working with so much improvement it is only logically working and with a thirteen percent improvement in eight years alone we're doing something right there are other ways we're conserving water besides high efficiency devices why conserve water you don't need to use this is an idea behind xeriscaping xeriscaping is an idea that originated in Colorado and uses planting and arranging plants that don't need as much or as conventional irrigation xeriscaping uses these drought ready plants to be able to withstand periods of less water and to more efficiently use the water they are already given a lot of households use half their water for lawn and plant maintenance by using xeriscaping we are using a lot less water in households and that's conserving water by default xeriscaping is becoming more and more popular in the drought infested States especially California recently California has taken many measures to conserve water and the ones that have already taken effect are extremely effective at using they're doing their job in California they have tea Water pricing this means that the more water someone uses the more it costs them people realize that that leaky showerhead uses water and cost them money and they fix that faucet saving water and money at the same time more things that have been happening in California is that they use that they issued civilian restrictions of 25 percent of what they used in 2013 to be conserved this restriction alone can lead to 1.3 million acre feet of water conserved San Jose Water Company is even starting mandatory water rationing in San Jose another restriction that is taking place is California mandating that water companies with over 3,000 connections have to conserve a certain percentage of their water this percentage can be between 8 and 36 percent and companies that don't comply can pay a fee of up to 10 thousand dollars per day the government in California is passing these restrictions and they're working again we're doing something right all of these programs are working time thank you for your time constructive speech first speaker team be three minutes hello my name is Kyla Campbell and I'll be representing North Naples middle school on the con side of this debate I strongly believe that the future of water in the US with the current levels of sustainable practices is not secure the UH Nardo da Vinci once said water is the driving force of all nature water water is one of the most important substances in our survival then why don't we care for it why don't we protect this precious substance that has been referred to as liquid gold because of the lack of effort we're putting into keeping our water pure the future of the water in the United States is not secure cities all over the US have been getting in trouble with water and it's not difficult to see why the water sources they depend on rivers lakes and aquifers have for decades been heavily used for irrigated agriculture since 1950 the consumption of water nationally for irrigation has tripled in volume a trend that played a large role in enabling food production to more than double over the same period water strip cities are trying to explain in places where most of the water is already being consumed by irrigated agriculture in fact more than 90% of the water being consumed from those shared water sources is is gone to growing crops in many basins a reduction of agriculture water consumption of just 20 to 15 to 20 percent can yield massive volumes of water that can be saved for other uses for example if not adopted nationally this level of reduction in agricultural water consumption would make more water available than all the water consumed in cities and industries today we need to be directing our water to places that need it more we need to be using our water and things that really matter so we still have some for the future and so that we have a stable future full of water opponents may argue that the water conservation efforts did help ease the timing of water expansions however they only helped ease the timing to a certain extent these typical water development patterns pose significant problems from a sustainability perspective as as it is usually associated with serious negative ecological and social impacts and lacking cost-effectiveness the heavy exploitation of freshwater sources a result of growing urban demands on top of heavy agricultural use has caused severe damage to freshwater ecosystems impaired the ability of ecosystems to provide services to people and created health problems in many regions in addition groundwater depletion has led to increased electricity classes for pumping the water from ever-increasing depths when cities extend their reach into other rivers or aquifers to access water supply they spread negative impacts over great distances energy intensive technologies such as recycling detoxification are expensive resulting in a higher water bills for consumers as well as increased carbon emissions that accelerate our climate change this just proves that we are wasting our water supply in conclusion if we don't get our act together we are not going to have a secure future of water in the United States we are overusing what is now considered a privilege we are destroying our future with water every day when we waste water we take a step down the mountain toward the plentiful future Leonardo da Vinci once said water is the driving force of all nature we are slowing down that driving force if we don't improve our water practices that driving force will soon be gone forever thank you for your time can we have 30 seconds of prep time 30 seconds okay three seconds is up crossfire first speakers for both teams um I don't want oh two minutes you said that irrigation has gone up three three times tripled in volume yes can you give me your source for that I have sources from Tom sheee Acting Secretary of the California State Brian rector of the Nature Conservancy and the University of Virginia does it say that it was in specific states are all over the United States it says just in it is all over the US and you keep talking about California but that's just one state we need all these programs to go nationally and how will those go nationally eventually they will go nationally because in California they bottled water and so if they bottle water there it depletes it so if they move it to the east they use less but you also said that we are doing fine for your group irrigated crops but we are giving aren't we giving too much to irrigated crops for other uses that would be more practical actually on our irrigation use has gone down over two times as much since 1965 okay but you said that that we don't need to conserve water that we don't need but we need all the water we can get xeriscaping doesn't use as much water and so we don't need to conserve what's wasted you said something about climate change and co2 emissions how does that have to deal with water well because of the energy intensive technology such as recycling recycling and detoxification are expensive they result in higher water bills and those energy intensive technologies can cause um carbon emissions at acceleration expensive is it exactly what how expensive is it um it's I do not know I'm sorry so if you don't know how expensive it is how is it costing water bills to cost more because the such as recycling detoxification they I found my sites from I had an interview with Brian Richter and he talked about how they were tripling the price of what they usually are you said we aren't going to live constructive speech second speaker team a three minutes hello my name is Logan zettai I'm from East Naples middle school and I strongly believe that with the practices today the water in the United States will last us according United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA for short managing the supply and availability of water is one of the most critical natural resource issues facing the United States and the world homes use more than half publicly supplied water in the United States which significant which is significantly more used in either business or industry to help American homes and businesses with with the efficient use of their water the EPA has invented a program called WaterSense a partnership program by offering simple ways to reduce water use through water efficient product choices with no sacrifice the quality or product or product performance WaterSense helps Americans save water and money promote the value of water efficiency provide consumers with easy ways to save water and as both label for products and an information resource to help people use water more efficiently encourage innovation and manufacturing decrease water use and reduce strain on water resource and infrastructure the program seeks to help consumers make smart water choices that save money and maintain high environmental standards without compromising performance products and services have earned WaterSense labeled have been certified to be at least 20% more efficient than other products without sacrificing performance upgrading to more efficient WaterSense labeled products can help us save billions of gallons of water in the country every year something as simple as twisting on a WaterSense labeled aerator and upgrading to a WaterSense faucet can save a household 11,000 gallons of water just for the life of that faucet and a study by the United States Geological Survey USGS for short water use in the United States in 2010 was estimated to be about three hundred fifty five billion gallons per day which was 13% less than in 2005 the 2010 estimates put a total withdraws at the lowest level since 1970 fresh water withdrawals were 306 billion gallons today or 86 percent of the total withdrawals and saline water withdrawals were fourteen percent of the total withdrawals fresh surface water and saline water fresh surface water withdraws two hundred and thirty billion gallons per day were almost 15% less ninety two thousand five fresh water grant fresh groundwater withdrawals seventy six billion gallons per day we're about four percent less than in 2005 saying the in surface water withdrawals were four point five billion gallons per day or two point four twenty four percent less than 2005 with all of these amounts dropping since 2005 in just five years we are saving water day after day after day and with what we have today we're good time thank you constructive speech second speaker team B three minutes hello I am something patching I'm representing confer this argument I very strongly believe the future of water in the u.s. is not secure with current levels of sustainable practices to secure the future of our water in the US we have to secure water we have to secure it now our water sources are limited and due to population growth unpredictable nature and conflicting demands for resources the sources are becoming even more scarce there was three hundred eighteen point nine million people living in the u.s. in 2014 according to the US Census but that nimble number has increased the average American family uses 300 gallons per day according to usgs.gov 96 percent of water on earth is salt water nearly 70 percent of that fresh water is frozen ice caps of an article in Greenland according to global change image edge only approximately 1% of our world's water is fresh and is accessible for direct human use only of our habits with our water are very unhealthy we overuse we leave the faucet on we're brushing our teeth and during drought people water their lawns not only our daily habits are unhealthy for our future water but even the ways we obtain our water aren't healthy many of our most important aquifers are being over pumped causing widespread declines in groundwater levels major rivers including the Colorado River in western United States and Yellow River in China no longer reach the sea in most years according to a professor at kristef Institute also think about the drought in California for instance everyone keeps using more and more water think about the future in the u.s. think about having no water in the future the most important change we can make is the way we think about the value and manage our water thank you can we have another 30 seconds for time okay 30 seconds is up crossfire second speakers for both teams two minutes um you were saying that our fresh groundwater is depleting but as I said in my speech the fresh groundwater was withdrawals were twenty four percent less than in 2005 what is your source for that my source for that is United States Geological Survey USGS Cove also mine what where do you get your percentages my procedures a lot of them in your speech they were all from a survey in USGS Cove how do you know that is an efficient source because it's the United States Geological Survey I do not believe that some of those things would lie in a survey yes but there's a surveys some people could lie on a survey but it's the United States it's not just some person taking a survey also um you said that people in the drought in California they are using as much water as they want what as my partner said in her speech there's tiered water usage so the more that you use the more you have to pay so I don't really think that people would want to pay more for using more water I actually said everyone keeps using more and more as an assasination not as just a state what you were talking about California before then and talking about people in California that was just for instance also in 2005 after five years what about the past five years from 2010 to 2015 how do we know if it didn't go up since then I'm just showing that they have gone down and they're probably continuing there also you mentioned China China doesn't have to do with the US you were talking about the years of a national I was actually quoting a professor from pissed instead he just but Yellow River isn't in the United States but right before that I was talking about the Colorado River and Western Heights constructive speech third speaker team a three minutes hello my name is Taylor Brewer and I representing East dimples middle school I'll probably be the first to admit that the human population is messed up couple times what can I say it's a problem of ours the only thing I'm positive of is that we can solve our problems and we can start with conserving water with the same perfectly good techniques from today WaterSense as my partner's have stated is this program sponsored by the EPA as you can probably guess at least I hope it's a program dedicated to help saving water and so far it's doing a pretty good job did you know that they have created products that help save water even when the tap isn't on there is now a market just for water efficient products programs and practices as stated by EPA org as EPA Auto work has also stated older toilets manufactured before 1992 when the Energy Policy Act mandated water efficient toilets used up to 3.5 gallons per flush however when you replace these toilets with the water son's toilets they could save up to two billion gallons per day to billion gallons per day this could help save an incredible amount of water saving us enough water to last for probably the rest of our future all you need to do is expand the use of these water saving techniques make the common population more aware of these great things that we already have toilets aren't the only thing that we have that are more water efficient WaterSense has also made it possible for faucets and appliances to save water did you know that faucets use more than one trillion gallons of water across the US every year WaterSense can reduce a sinks flow by 30% if every household in United States replaced their old faucets and faucet accessories with the WaterSense ones we could save more than sixty billion gallons of water a year that's enough to meet the public demand in a city the size of Miami for more than 150 days the average washing machine uses about 41 gallons of water per load but high-efficiency water washing machines use 35 to 50 percent less water a lot of water can be saved what just by using a different toilet who knew did you know that a leak a toilet can waste two hundred gallons per day that would be as wasteful as flushing your toilet more than 50 times for absolutely no reason do you realize how much water we could be saving simply by repairing old leaks or replacing old shower heads or faucets with newer ones they don't even have to be the WaterSense one those couldn't hurt it's not just insight that we can be saving water but on the outside too of this twenty six billion gallons of water consumed daily United States approximately seven point eight billion gallons are devoted to outdoor use you don't even have to use any fancy equipment to conserve water outdoors according to EPA gov all you have to do is choose climate appropriate drought tolerant and native adopted species or reen analyze your lawn or xeriscape as my partner Anna's stated saving water is just as easy as that look all we have to do time thank you for your time constructive speech third speaker Team B three minutes my name is Lexi Piper and I'm from North Naples middle school and I'm debating the conside for this resolution I strongly believe that the current levels of sustainable practice is not secure for the future of water in the United States sustainable practice is a policy that means the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs I would first like to talk about something that is currently affecting the United States the issue is the drought in California I propose that not only are the current levels of sustainable practice not sufficient to secure the future of water they are not even adequate to support today's needs the security of water availability for California is so dire that the California State Water Board has been forced to revise drought regulations just last month these measures include a statement of the board released for a revised blueprint enforcing Governor Jerry Brown's executive order the Californians by next February reduce urban water use by 25 percent compared with the 2013 levels this emergency provision would not be necessary if the current regulations were sufficient in California they have a fraction of the amount of water they had last year Peter GLIAC said the environmental scientist from Yale said in an interview with USA Today on regard to the drop all bets are off on the water policy he said if the drought goes on for five ten or twenty years all bets are five ten or twenty years in the end we will have no choice but to bring supply and demand back into balance at the in the options from new supply are very limited we've reached the peak of water in most western watersheds and there's no more water to be had my opponents would argue that we already have enough to protect this precious liquid gold of life called water when in fact most of it is going to big businesses for processes like fracking in California every year they waste 1 billion gallons of fresh water for drilling oil and the new plan set out by Governor Jerry Brown it states nothing about cutting down on fracking if we even sourced a fraction of the water from industrial and agricultural use to urban use the water would be better protected that is why I strongly believe that the current levels of sustainable practice it does not secure the future of water thank you can we have 30 seconds from time okay thirty minutes is up crossfire third speakers for both teams two minutes um you were saying how we're not saving enough water per year do you call sixty balanced sixty billion gallons a year not enough well for the whole entire United States I don't think that's enough if people are using about three hundred gallons a day of water where'd you get that source I got some of it from the National Geographic and the other one from the Pacific Institute um what my uh what would it would be an average family what was your statistic one hundred three hundred gallons day for a ravaged family or yeah an advertised family three hundred you had an average-sized family be um you've been giving us some great ideas to conserve water um what we never said that we used any of them actually I have I've said we've been implementing a lot of these new sources and the thing is we have great ideas and we have great um techniques and practices all we need to do the question doesn't say that we can't on expand our already ideas it just says we can't create any more new ideas we have some really amazing ideas just people don't know about them some people do and some people don't as my colleague said Anna she said xeriscaping that would save a lot of water we just need to have people know about it oh and you set a site and a site isn't a source do you have any like and it's epa.gov I said cited from EPA gov do you have any interviews from actual people who've been talking about this I said EPA gov you don't need to have interviews to have it be a reliable source I just cited from the source how much do these new toilets and faucets and other appliances cost they cost very little the faucets cost right around ten to twenty dollars and honestly to save how much was it I think three thousand gallons it honestly not that much just ten to twenty dollars such a strong faucet summary rebuttal first speaker team a can we take 30 seconds prep time okay time's up summary rebuttal first speaker team a one-minute all of these programs that we are implementing are working we have restrictions in California that are being put in place right now they are working and they are conserving acres of water we are conserving waters and level water levels haven't been this low since 1965 to 1970 we have improved and even today we continue to improve we are using these programs they are working and we have improved our water levels they continue to improve and they are projected to continue to improve even further with all of these happening well with all of these things happening and people becoming more aware of the water they're wasting every day with just their faucets I believe that our water is safe thank you summary rebuttal first speaker team be one minute in summary to cover our main points we are over using our water we are directing too much to agricultural purposes and a lot of development patterns plays serious ecological and social negative impacts and on our on the United States thank you so much for your time summary rebuttal second speaker team a one minute hi again as I've said the United States our practices are pretty good right now I would say we have WaterSense a program which takes products that everybody uses and they find a way to make it 20% more water efficient without losing any water without using losing any productivity product performance really it just works exactly the same it's just more water efficient and ever since 2005 to 2010 the amount of water was the amount of water used was 13% less there are a lot more that have gone down for five years imagine what we could do in the next five in the next five in the next five soon we'll be doing pretty good thank you for your time summary rebuttal second speaker team be one minute in summary there is a huge variety of things we can do to secure a future of water and there's a huge variety of things that we were doing that we could get rid of to secure the future there's many things we could do to secure to secure a future for the u.s. we must secure our water thank you can we have one more 30 seconds about time time's up now we have a grand crossfire all six students two minutes third speaker on um I wanted to ask you my partner here asked you and you didn't answer how much is an average family four people um we found that actually instead of 300 gallons it's actually 400 gallons per day a family of four what's your choice for that my source for that is the Environmental Protection Agency um you said um second speaker that soon we'll be doing pretty good I thought you were saying that we were already doing it I'm saying that we're doing good I I said that we're doing good I mean that we're going to do better and better and better the thing is right now we're doing a great job but we can only get better um you said what's your name again sorry Kylie okay Kylie um you said that we're projecting too much water to the agricultural yes how much water is that because I mean I think it's pretty important for us to give water to our food sources it is but since 1950 its tripled in volume how much we are giving our water actually since 1965 it's gone down button how much what's your source for that uh USGS how much loans work with United States Geological Survey and when they say survey they mean survey of the land not of people um second speaker you said that we could do things to improve our water what can we do that we're not doing right now to improve it we could get rid of like agricultural use so are you saying that we should get rid of our food no I'm saying that we could use recycled water for that we already do D saltation D salt Z stain desalination yes I can that's toxic water we can't do enough where does the salt go when we desalinate it we take out the minerals and salt of that water where does it go after I do not know that um and first speaker you keep talking about um some sort of negative impacts will impacts what did you say those were on ecological impacts and social impacts what are those what exactly is happening that's negative to they have caused severe damage to freshwater ecosystems in found one of those times of ex final focus third speak um can we take one minute prep time okay time's up final focus third speaker team a one minute as my colleagues have stated we're doing a great job of conserving water and all we can do possibly is just continue as we if we continue using what we're using now we'll just continue to get better and better and we'll save more and more water and we're just going to continue with these products and these things and we're just going to save more and more water so I don't really see a negative impact of this if we just continue saving more and more water how's that going to negatively impact us all we have to do we already have the programs the problem is not a whole lot of people know about them just like the common folks we need to educate them we need to say hey here's something that works it's proven to work xeriscaping it works well we could save sixty billion gallons of water a day or a year just by doing certain small things like changing a faucet or changing your toilet all you have to do is just change those little tiny things change your lawn it's not that hard we just have to make people more aware we can do thank you final focus third speaker team be one minute if our processes were already secure why would we need to expand and if we and one faucet won't change the world if we change out our toilet and we use more water whereas the other parts going to unnecessary things that could be used for greater things and if we really were going to change this stuff earlier we would have already cut down on the things that we thought were unnecessary like fracking isn't necessarily um necessary we could use other things to fuel cars and stuff and as Leonardo da Vinci once said water is the one driving force of all nature so why slow it down okay thank you both teams we the judges are going to deliberate and we'll be right back with you job the you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you okay teams very good job I know you've worked hard on this for over a month now preparing and your speeches were well done we love that both teams had a lot of statistics and you both really seem to know a lot of details and so we did make a couple of notes it was a split decision that's why we were back there so long and but we did come to a a decision and so we want to tell you let's tell you some good things that we we loved and we heard new statistics and we do want to recommend and keep recommending I know it's hard and for the people in the audience public speaking is scary and these are middle school kids that are doing it and so we are just very proud of them for being up here and kids you can continue to work on your eye contact okay that pulls us in we loved a lot of your summaries and whenever we saw passion come out and you like you really believed it that meant a lot we liked when you're asking us questions and making us think and overall the summaries and rebuttals were pretty strong and let's see so we came up with the team and that had we thought their research was a little more solid and we thought that their content was clearly and logically organized and the speaker's contributed to the spontaneity of the debate synthesizing response and this side had very strong presentation skills crisp and confident delivery we do want it to be very civil we saw a point where it wasn't as civil as we would like it to be but overall you did a great job so we want to say all of you are winners because you made it this far and our winner today is going to be East Naples middle school first place so we have so we have trophies for the teams today and again thank you thank you for being students that actually choose to research on your own time and to get up and debate and we're just very proud of all of you so you thank you both teams you did a great job so thank you everybody in the audience for your support we appreciate it good job kids you

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Published: Fri May 22 2015