During the civil war in Lebanon, power supply to homes was disrupted often and then stayed put that way for days. Some enterprising folks then bought some generators and started selling electric power to their neighbourhoods.
Now that the civil war is behind them; actually it has moved on to Syria - whose army entered Lebanon in 1975 and refused to leave; the government is able to put in new transformers and distribution points to supply power to the citizens again.
Unfortunately, the generator mafia has grown so rich and strong over the years that they blow up the new government transformers so that they will remain in business.
I was going to write this post under the heading Hope for India Part 3 - for some suburbs of Pune, Viman Nagar in Pune, do have piped water being supplied reliably. The reason? The elected municipal representatives from that area ran a water tanker business. Fortunately, with the new government in Maharashtra, things are changing. Piped water is finally reaching Viman Nagar. This country is finally on the move.
Our task now is to keep the corrupt out of power for ten or fifteen years and watch this country soar.
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