Use Five Whys Without Stopping at 'The Pump Clogged'
Use Five Whys to move from symptom to controllable process cause.
Nursery intake pump clogs twice in one day, reducing flow after a windy night. Five Whys: ask why until the cause is controllable, evidence-backed, and recurrence-focused The common trap is stopping at 'leaves clogged the screen.' That explains what you removed, not why the system allowed it to recur, and it leaves the same inspection route, trigger, and tool-location gap in place for the next windy night. Why 1 Why did flow drop? The intake screen clogged with leaves and plastic fragments. The first why identifies the immediate physical cause, but it is only the starting point because removing debris…
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