I have worked in water treatment and distribution. There really is no magic or hard work there. Just keep the water treatment plants operational and the supply system sending water to homes.
Please, tell me, how can socialism screw this up?
Bob Dylan said,
...Don’t want to be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don’t work
‘Cause the vandals took the handles…
Pumps, filters, chlorination, etc. all need to be maintaine.
http://theconversation.com/venezuela-how-a-water-crisis-brought-an-entire-country-to-its-knees-59932
Got an iron cannonball?
Socialism will screw it up bare-handed.
I agree but the best I can figure is they ran out of chemicals to treat it.
Lets just think of the ways.
1: No electricity to run the pumps
2: No chemical deliveries for the treatment process
3: No parts for maintenance and repairs
4: Not enough money (or money that is worth anything) to
hire and retain the Water Quality Control lab people
5: Not enough money (see above) to keep a maintenance and
repair staff in the Facility
6: No Electricity, no Chemicals, no Parts, no Personnel,
no money to train new personnel.
In short the vendors who would normally supply the plant personnel with the tools and materials to do their jobs are not going to give their stuff away for free, the mechanics and chemists who actually operate the plant are not going to give their knowledge and labor away for free.
If you were one of those mechanics or chemists, would you take what you know to be worthless currency in exchange for your labors, or would you take your knowledge and experience into the Black Market in order to KEEP your FAMILY FED?
I worked full time in Water Treatment and Distribution for many years (grade 3 Treatment, grade 4 distribution), there are thousands of ways to shut down a plant, primarily logistics and maintenance.
Same holds true for Waste Water Plants.
Well, for one thing, electricity delivery is sporadic with rolling blackouts. Some customers are going without electricity for days at a time.
By not maintaining and repairing equipment. Same with their dam, they have most of their electricity coming from a hydroelectric plant on a huge fan, which they rarely maintain. Maybe this year they will lose oil production, electricity and water.
Easy. Look, bookies have raked in money for decades. Socialist New York State’s state run off-track betting needs to be subsidized. Venezuela has petroleum reserves that are among the highest in the world (if not the actual HIGHEST). Socialism, both in theory, and in practice is the road to oblivion itself. We have countless examples of this, yet, it continues to recruit new adherents.
Easy.
1) No money for water treatment chemicals.
2) No money for replacement parts.
3) No money to pay staff, so they stop showing up.
The socialists have to use what money they have to keep their thugs happy. The leadership grabs most of what's left to stash away in Lichtenstein.
Socialism is a scam where articulate people scam stupid people into thinking they will get lots of free stuff if they just support the scammers.
Please, tell me, how can socialism screw this up?
Take out socially unreliable managers/technicians
and replace them with party apparatchnicks...
“Please, tell me, how can socialism screw this up?”
well, you need reliable power to run the filtration plants, you need numerous chemicals to carry out the filtration, pH balancing, and disinfection processes, expert people who reliably show up to work to operate the filtration plants, and spare parts for maintenance of the raw water input system and potable water distribution systems, as well as maintenance workers to maintain said systems.
given the near-complete collapse of everything in that nation, my guess is that everything mentioned above is deficient or missing altogether now ...