A good, solid ground is an unknown necessary in electrical and electronic work.
I understand from others on this forum that getting a good ground in the “sandbox” is almost impossible at times in that region. You often have to detail people to “water” the ground rods several times a day, as if they are plants.
This is much deeper than an issue of “shoddy” work, and the Slimes is being its usual idiotic self in spinning the article this way.
This is a deep logistical problem. It is going to take serious resources to fix and is all he worse because explaining to congress why you need to spend $10k to drill a rod down to 200ft for a decent ground has got to be hard to explain.
I agree with all you’ve said. I don’t know much about electrical installations but the comments on this thread have been very informative.
I hope that the true situation is as you say, one of a serious logistical problem related to conditions, rather than one in which people were just sloppy, or worse.