Worth remembering, newfangled tech isn't always better, when it comes to water.
Wolverhampton's water (Severn Trent) is pumped from a series of connected boreholes.
Pretty sure it was either Bridgenorth/Cosford, the pumping station in question.
Water used to be pumped from the ground using a simple fixed speed pump, that had been in place since its inception, it had been decades since it last needed maintenance. This was replaced by a newfangled variable speed pump, to supposedly save money, but the 3-phase inverters were found to last just a few months between failure.
Something that was simple and had just worked for decades became very complex, and prone to regular failure, the inverters weren't cheap to replace either.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
