[justanotherguy0]

Bullshit. Delivering power and water are incredibly complex. Water has to be sourced from God knows where, you have to do planning on building reservoirs. You have to manage run off (hey, your horses can't keep shitting near that stream!). You have to treat the water and manage it's acidity. You have to keep mains running. If a leak springs and the system goes under pressure, the whole supply can become contaminated! So now you have to notify your users that they need to BOIL THEIR WATER! you have to detect leaks in the last mile of delivery so that you can protect the system. You have to keep your pumps from getting flooded. You have to manage subsidy programs and different user classes. You have to integrate with federal and state water authorities.

Utilities are complicated. There's no such thing as delivering and not failing to deliver.

[XorNot]

Nothing gives away a software engineer with no experience then when they look at physical infrastructure and declare "that's easy to do".

This is the profession where getting an SOE imaged machine in a new employees hands on their first day is considered a big achievement.

[wearywanderer]

Somewhere on the net in some parallel forum, water and electric utility workers are talking about how simple running twitter must be.

> How hard can it be? If a ethernet cable fails it's not as though it will electrocute the worker or flood a town downstream.