http://miltonjonesblog.com/?p=159 Just another WordPress site Sun, 24 Nov 2013 06:35:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://miltonjonesblog.com/?p=159#comment-363 Rob Meyer Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:16:20 +0000 http://miltonjonesblog.com/?p=159#comment-363 What a conundrum! Reminds me of a story I'd heard years ago of a group which had gone to Africa to help villages obtain clean water. They had a wonderful system, but it all depended on one particular item, a rather sophisticated filter or something, that wasn't quite as dependable as advertised. When it broke down after a few months, they discovered that the replacement part (with shipping) cost more than the entire village's income for the year. In the end, the were worse off than before, because they had a completely useless water filtration system which they had to dismantle in order to get any water at all. What a conundrum! Reminds me of a story I’d heard years ago of a group which had gone to Africa to help villages obtain clean water. They had a wonderful system, but it all depended on one particular item, a rather sophisticated filter or something, that wasn’t quite as dependable as advertised. When it broke down after a few months, they discovered that the replacement part (with shipping) cost more than the entire village’s income for the year. In the end, the were worse off than before, because they had a completely useless water filtration system which they had to dismantle in order to get any water at all.

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