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Governance Economy Culture Interview
Balakrishnan Nair on an apprenticeship nobody has time for.
Balakrishnan Nair has set type by hand for forty-three years. This conversation has been edited for length.
"People think it is the hands. It is not the hands. It is knowing where the sort is before you reach. The hand is only fast because it is not deciding."
"Everyone wants the beautiful part. The beautiful part is year six. Nobody has year six."
"Someone should use them. Not keep them. Use them."
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Nineteen public consultations and counting. The treatment-plant utilisation number is the one nobody publishes, and it is the only one that would tell you whether any of this works.
They published it at 4:15pm. I've added it to the piece as an update rather than a correction, since nothing in the original was wrong; it was simply unanswered.
The cascade point deserves more attention than it usually gets. Restoring a lake in isolation is a real improvement to that lake and almost nothing to the system.
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Even so, the diversion drains are doing something; they buy time while the plants get built.