Let me guess, WaterGems and co ?

What a coincidence ! The plant we are talking about is in China.

That's right, because at the end, they still have the house.

You are right and I sure hope they are running like GP says they are. If you have backup pumps, of course you do not run them like the others. You shouldn't forget about them for twenty years hoping they will just wake up when needed, but running them full-time would be nuts.

So because it is worse elsewhere we shouldn't say anything ? An ad on a bus may be bigger and more distracting than an ad on a Kindle, but I have much less power over the bus company than over the device I bought myself.

And to answer your question: I can't drive or walk without seeing ads. And it does bother me.

You got it backward. People want to go to cities for any kind of job because life in the countryside sucks so much. The Chinese government is very careful about this and has basically set up an internal passport to control movement from countryside to city and province to province. People still move but they have less rights than real urban residents.

The democratic alternative is India, where people also go to the cities and also don't have much rights ...

I found this kind of mistake is mostly made by native speaker. People who learn English later make a lot of mistakes but rarely like accept/except, would of, their/they're.

Actually, to speak French is not a requirement to enter the French Foreign Legion. A lot of the soldiers learn French during their training.

50% losses is much too high. A normal network in a developed country would be around 20%, and that is including all water losses (i.e., undermetering, illegal water use, etc.). Only physical losses represent a real waste of resource and these should not be more than 10-15%.

I do not know the situation in the US, but if you really have 50% physical losses, you are worse than places like Indonesia or India.

And in China ...

I sure hope all the guys than can do that will die before me!

I am quite sure it is possible to predict when the next one will be won, yes. Who asked which piece of rock will cause the fire?

I have never met anyone who couldn't manage it in a few days, but if you think it is too hard, just bring your own utensils, what's the big deal ?

And GP is trolling, in China there are spoons available everywhere you can have soup ...

I will ask my driver tomorrow morning.

Cremation was introduced by the communists and is now prevalent in modern China.

I am not sure whether they cared about preservation. The important part is to be buried whole.