During the Wuxi Water Crisis, the Wuxi government first said nothing and then lied

I was talking to some students tonight about the week the Wuxi water crisis broke.   The local media said nothing about the crisis for three days.  Then they said the water was okay; it just had to be boiled.  Because of the Internet, the students that me the government then was finally forced to admit that the water was worse than that.   As Marc Steyn  about the SARS crisis, the typical Communist reaction is to first deny there is any problem.