Blue Nettles

Send a large portion of your income (and everybody else's) to a large black hole. Form large committees of highly educated (yet, poorly employed) lawyers and politicians to discuss bathtub improvement goals. Assign hundreds of highly educated (yet poorly employed) planners to study, recommend and suggest ways to improve bathtubs. Develop thousands of pages of plans to describe the particular steps required to empty bathtub. Spend billions (from aforementioned black hole) training and preparing specially equipped employees to carry out plans and procedures. When it is time to empty bathtub of water mobilize teams of employees to begin operations (only after reporting back to previously mentioned planners and asking for additional guidance).

This may very well work, however, be alert to the very real possibility that Whitey (or some other sensible bloke) may have stumbled on the bathtub and PULLED THE PLUG OUT!