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Originally Posted by curves2000
I have zero experience or knowledge in this department like pretty much all other Calgarian's. I have no issue with the restrictions personally and have abided by them, but that clearly isn't everybody and probably not even the Mayor.
If this does indeed take a total of 2-3 weeks from start to finish, hopefully some lessons are learned for this and other mission critical infrastructure. We keep being told how critical this and I agree. Hopefully some additional knowledge and preventative planning can be shared with other cities in Canada.
If this had happened in the worst case scenario and the repairs took 30-45 days or more, would your response be "Ahh shucks, no water, no problem"?
I know how government officials beat around the bush. They should have and should continue to actual put the fear into people about where we are in this situation. We went from 5-7 days to 2+ weeks potentially. You need to dumb things down and let people know what the actual risks are beyond drinking water and short showers. Major explosion, a terror attack, a plane crash, another major watermain break etc.
It probably doesn't look good when we have all the government officials at the podium looking all fresh, clean and showered during this "water crisis"
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The current level of problem face by Calgarians as a result of this incident barely rises to minor inconvenience. This appears to have been a well mitigated risk.
Why do you believe the worst case repairs are 30-45 days?