"This is all kindof embarassing, as Emily and I gave a lecture a few months ago on water systems, how they work, and how to solicit a project to develop one. In fact, we even did some preliminary negotiations with an engineer to design it and I took flow measurements at the spring. Of course, at no point in the process did anyone ever stand up and say, “Hey, dumbass, we know this stuff already and ran million-quetzal project like that 15 years ago.” It’s just another example of how they (don’t) communicate here."

If you'd feel better if someone called you a dumbass every now and then, I'm surprised Emily wouldn't take you up on that...