(this one goes out to you Adria & Blake :) )
This week, all week, our village was without fresh running water. Starting either Saturday or Sunday, the houses and buildings that have taps (which of course is not all by any means) suddenly found that they no longer functioned...they became air taps. This happens regularly of course..perhaps for a day every two weeks, but a week is a LONG time to go without a fresh supply. It meant we had to take water conservation to a whole new level as by Monday evening our 30L or so of stored water was getting pretty low (do you realize how much water a toilet takes when you only have 30L stored? About 1/5 for every flush.
Thus you might have seen this scenario..no bathing, no dishes, no flushing, no laundry. We set up a wash bowl for washing hands and tried to use the good water only for cooking and drinking. Part way through Tuesday I was starting to get angry at the puppies for wasting water as they always spill their water bowl over!
At school we have 2 taps and two flush toilets, those had to be shut and locked. The learners were complaining that they wanted to go home because they were thirsty...but of course that is against the rules! Chris' school was serviced by a large water truck because it is a hostel school and the kids eat and sleep here.
Luckily on Wednesday the tap in the backyard started to run again so we could fill up our solar shower and our bottles from nearby at least and that was heaven. And today (fingers crossed) there is still fabulous running water with pressure in our house! Ah, luxury, you don't know what you have North America. You live in another world, really, truly!
PS- We just found out it wasn't just our village but the whole region or more because of a major pipe break!
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