The Tonga Water Board and Tonga's dumb records

Tonga is the only country in the whole world that punishes its students, i.e. those who are Tongan passport holders, by forcing them to memorize ancient proverbs and words that are no longer in use. Foreign students and dual-citizens are exempted. Until the riot in 2006, Tonga boasted the longest-serving police commander in the South Pacific. And barring an unforeseen injection of commonsense, the longest-serving general manager of a public utility; in this case the Tonga Water Board. The TWB keeps renewing the guy's contract despite the fact that he is a geologist and not an engineer. The chairman of the TWB is a former director of health. Five years ago the current publisher of the Kele'a newspaper, Laucala Tapueluelu, had written an article relating that pigs belonging to the then director of health were feasting on human faeces from Tongatapu's many septic tanks. Well there are no such pigs at the TWB main office. There are however two axioms of Parkinson's Law: an official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals; and officials make work for each other. These should be tested on the TWB staff because tap water is nowadays becoming a luxury in Nuku'alofa. A household's water bill is approximately half  it's electricity bill.