I have recently been informed that the public water works company in the Kanto area can do nothing about a broken water pipe on private property even if that broken water pipe is spilling about 100 to 150 liters per hour of fresh water and the fresh water is going down a rainwater drain.
What I saw was that about 10,000 liters of fresh water was allowed to be wasted because the contractor charged with fixing the broken main pipe couldn't do the job first on Thursday, then Friday, and just came back this morning, on Monday.
Yes, I saw what the problem was and quite possibly the Thursday delay can be excused, but to walk away from the job on Friday afternoon and let all that fresh water go down the drain strikes me as not so good.
And this morning I find out that because it is private property there isn't an authority that could stop it from happening.
Or is there some chance the public water works representative was sort of fibbing?
You see, we are being bombarded with notices all the time from the public water works people about how we brush our teeth, use a toilet, the furo, yet they don't have the authority to stop a really, really bad leak. How does that make sense?
And please don't get me wrong -- I am not indicating the notices to save water should be stopped. I don't view them as a problem. I don't have a problem with folks being all gungho about conserving water -- fine by me. But when there is a really serious leak, HEH, who is supposed to police up that stuff!? Nobody!!? That is hard to swallow.
What I saw was that about 10,000 liters of fresh water was allowed to be wasted because the contractor charged with fixing the broken main pipe couldn't do the job first on Thursday, then Friday, and just came back this morning, on Monday.
Yes, I saw what the problem was and quite possibly the Thursday delay can be excused, but to walk away from the job on Friday afternoon and let all that fresh water go down the drain strikes me as not so good.
And this morning I find out that because it is private property there isn't an authority that could stop it from happening.
Or is there some chance the public water works representative was sort of fibbing?
You see, we are being bombarded with notices all the time from the public water works people about how we brush our teeth, use a toilet, the furo, yet they don't have the authority to stop a really, really bad leak. How does that make sense?
And please don't get me wrong -- I am not indicating the notices to save water should be stopped. I don't view them as a problem. I don't have a problem with folks being all gungho about conserving water -- fine by me. But when there is a really serious leak, HEH, who is supposed to police up that stuff!? Nobody!!? That is hard to swallow.