Water stolen from school?

[ReggaeMike]

I agree Govt should run pipes, absence of that practical approach is responsible for the void, hence when a Govt official acquiesce to water theft, he is being practical.
The importance of water is not lost because of commercial issues.


Blessed

No, when a government official acquiesces to water theft he is being typical for out here. Really how is it "practical" when there are a number of other solutions that can be done and which apparently haven't even been tried?

1. The government official could have offered to broker some kind of deal whereby the school would have their water bill reduced in return for allowing the squatter community to access their water (so in effect subsidizing the squatter community which is what they are "practically" doing anyway by okaying theft)

2. The government official could have offered (as Minister for Water no less) to have water trucked to the community until a legal connection is made if they would stop stealing the school's water. This would provide more work for people by the way.

3. The government official could have offered to set up a legal connection. This would provide more work as well.

4. The government official could have offered to help set up a rainwater catchment system in the community so they could have a partial source of their own water.

5. The government official could have offered to lobby for a desalination plant and/or waste water treatment plant in the area to supply both the community and the school with water and that until such time he would work on other solutions (see 1-4 above).

Really, I came up with these 5 possibilities on the fly and your telling me a Minister whose job portfolio includes Water and Housing couldn't come up with ONE alternative to out-and-out theft?

[Rockman]

Disconnect to reconnect under the same circumstances.
The people in the interim wait.
With you on it is not the desired solution.




Blessed

[ReggaeMike]

Disconnect to reconnect under the same circumstances.
The people in the interim wait.
With you on it is not the desired solution.




Blessed

How do the people wait if they are being supplied with water in the interim?

EDIT: Plus why would it necessarily be reconnecting under the same circumstances? If the squatter community got it's own dedicated pipeline then the circumstances would be different since in the future if the water got locked off to the school, the community may not be affected.

[Rockman]

Okay temporary trucking.... as was the case of the school,it did not happen though(the reason why is unknown) hence...
Even with his Gov't's oversight, he has to address the issue, in fact it is a concession that his Govt is derelict(but then the water rights issue was never resolved)...







Blessed

[ReggaeMike]

Okay temporary trucking.... as was the case of the school,it did not happen though(the reason why is unknown) hence...
Even with his Gov't's oversight, he has to address the issue, in fact it is a concession that his Govt is derelict(but then the water rights issue was never resolved)...







Blessed

Read through my post again where I presented 5 ideas. Out of the 5 at least 3 did not require any form of disconnection or waiting:

1. The government official could have offered to broker some kind of deal whereby the school would have their water bill reduced in return for allowing the squatter community to access their water (so in effect subsidizing the squatter community which is what they are "practically" doing anyway by okaying theft)

2. The government official could have offered (as Minister for Water no less) to have water trucked to the community until a legal connection is made if they would stop stealing the school's water. This would provide more work for people by the way.........


......4. The government official could have offered to help set up a rainwater catchment system in the community so they could have a partial source of their own water.

5. The government official could have offered to lobby for a desalination plant and/or waste water treatment plant in the area to supply both the community and the school with water and that until such time he would work on other solutions (see 1-4 above).

There is no way that he should have just resorted to saying it was "okay". It's his job to come up with solutions and to help everybody. Now he will probably have the school staff be against him and his party all because 'im too lazy to even think about simple solutions.

[MdmeX]

Quote from ReggaeMike

5. The government official could have offered to lobby for a desalination plant and/or waste water treatment plant in the area to supply both the community and the school with water and that until such time he would work on other solutions (see 1-4 above).

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Nice thought. But I just wonder to myself - how many decades it would take to have this effected!

[HL]

All I have to say is that I admired the exchange between ReggaeMike and Rockman.

A similar debate between some long-standing forumites --would have resulted in name calling and insults from the second thread.

"That's all I have to say about that".
--Forrest Gump

[ReggaeMike]

Well Rockman is an intelligent, reasonable person. Why should we resort to name calling and insults as though we were only 12 year olds?

It certainly wouldn't achieve anything other than to create a spirit of bad blood (of which there is far too much in this world anyway).

[Sickko]

We have no water shortage in Montego Bay