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Incompetence, emergency airlift of water to ocean island
Drinking water airlifted to Maldives’ capital India and Sri Lanka have airlifted drinking water to the Maldives after a fire at a desalination plant led to severe shortages and stirred unrest on the streets of the islands’ capital, Male. India said on Friday it had sent 200 tonnes of drinking water while Sri Lanka also reported to have airlifted 100,000 bottles of water. … — http://www.aljazeera.com/news/southasia/2014/12/drinking-water-airlifted-maldives-capital-2014125171141926496.html
This beggars belief, no contingency, no storage, no strategic competence. Reliant on a single source, single point failure and kerbam. Resilience to multiple faults is not optional. Standard safety rule
- Primary safety (avoiding an event)
- Secondary safety (damage, avoiding fatal consequence)
Usually there are more than two layers with anything critical. Could write all day on “accidents” which were not or those which are waiting to happen. Post by Tim
Source: https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/incompetence-emergency-airlift-of-water-to-ocean-island/
