Health & Safety in Oman

I hadn't mentioned yet that over the Christmas period (at last) we had the water connected to our house (until then we were having regular refills of our water tank over the roof by the blue truck).


The day of the connection, a guy, I assume an employee of the water company, turned up unannounced at the door asking if he could use our electricity, seemingly to run whatever device he was carrying to check the water pressure.


In the meantime as we had run out of water and I had no idea the water was being connected that day, the blue truck I had called earlier also arrived and started filling our tank.

The tank filling business always created a huge pool of water at the front of our house so the ground got a bit wet.



Undeterred the water company employee passed his cable through the puddle, over the front gate, into our flooded front garden, through our front door; plugged the wires (literally) into the nearest socket and got on with his job.


The following picture requires no further explanation....