Interesting. Although I tend to attribute things like this to ignorance and not malice. < Helps me pretend people aren't so bad.
The people who make decisions often don't know what they're deciding about (how can the same person make a good decision about child education, policing standards and public hygiene?) and I think our modern philosophy that a "bad decision made early is better than no decision" amplifies this.
There are some decisions in life that have to made carefully so we don't ask for forgiveness.
The importance of pipe scale and water chemistry is something that the person making the decision absolutely should have known. It's a huge systemic issue if the decision has been taken away from someone with that basic technical knowledge and handed to some administrator.
It really is pretty basic knowledge for someone making decisions about a water system.
The people who make decisions often don't know what they're deciding about (how can the same person make a good decision about child education, policing standards and public hygiene?) and I think our modern philosophy that a "bad decision made early is better than no decision" amplifies this.
There are some decisions in life that have to made carefully so we don't ask for forgiveness.
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