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Originally Posted by Ducay
The city has done a piss-poor job of explaining why water levels are at a critical level, which leads to people not taking it seriously.
If a feeder main is down, that is unrelated to the actual supply, that is just transmission across the city and has a more limited impact (vs. city wide). But if they came out and said "hey this feeder main provides all the supply from the Bearspaw treatment plant to the system, so we're down an entire plant", then people might appreciate what we're up against a bit more.
Right now people see the spring water levels in the reservoir and rivers and think the city is lying
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It's probably more like 50% of Bearspaw that they can't get into the system:
I wonder if there is any literature about citizen response in crisis situation like this? I suspect there is a threshold for severity of messaging where even a lot of good-hearted people switch from making sacrifices for the greater good to taking the contrary action to protect their family (filling pots and buckets in this case).