How widespread is the water rationing in PR? What's is like dealing with no water every other day? (hotels, house)
U.S. TerritoriesPuerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, etc.
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It's difficult to wrap one's brain around the issue of draught and water rationing in Puerto Rico, especially for those of us who lived there during better times.
As a teenager in the 70's, I do not recall one moment in which we lacked fresh water. Fresh water was abundant. Fresh water was everywhere.
The very first house my parents owned was located in a sector of a Barrio called El Caño (The Spout). A three minute walk from our house lead you to a spring from which sprouted pure free flowing crystalline water. After hurricanes, it was normal for people to arrive at the spring with jugs of all sizes to collect the cool unadulterated water.
I recall how around the spring's orifice was found this very rich black mud which my mother often collected to plant her flowers. She swore it was the most nutritious soil for her flowers to grow in.
El Rio Cibuco was not far from the spring. It was a modest winding river whose waters tended to be a little murky with reddish mud as the currents wiped at the earth on each side of the river.
During rainfalls, my father located 55 gallon drums to catch runoff water from our humble home's corrugated tin roof. I remember how that rain water had a faint sweet taste to it a few days after it had settled in the drums.
Yes, water-water was every where. There was enough water to meet everyone's need.
It's difficult to wrap one's brain around the issue of draught and water rationing in Puerto Rico, especially for those of us who lived there during better times.
As a teenager in the 70's, I do not recall one moment in which we lacked fresh water. Fresh water was abundant. Fresh water was everywhere.
The very first house my parents owned was located in a sector of a Barrio called El Caño (The Spout). A three minute walk from our house lead you to a spring from which sprouted pure free flowing crystalline water. After hurricanes, it was normal for people to arrive at the spring with jugs of all sizes to collect the cool unadulterated water.
I recall how around the spring's orifice was found this very rich black mud which my mother often collected to plant her flowers. She swore it was the most nutritious soil for her flowers to grow in.
El Rio Cibuco was not far from the spring. It was a modest winding river whose waters tended to be a little murky with reddish mud as the currents wiped at the earth on each side of the river.
During rainfalls, my father located 55 gallon drums to catch runoff water from our humble home's corrugated tin roof. I remember how that rain water had a faint sweet taste to it a few days after it had settled in the drums.
Yes, water-water was every where. There was enough water to meet everyone's need.
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It's difficult to wrap one's brain around the issue of draught and water rationing in Puerto Rico, especially for those of us who lived there during better times.
As a teenager in the 70's, I do not recall one moment in which we lacked fresh water. Fresh water was abundant. Fresh water was everywhere.
The very first house my parents owned was located in a sector of a Barrio called El Caño (The Spout). A three minute walk from our house lead you to a spring from which sprouted pure free flowing crystalline water. After hurricanes, it was normal for people to arrive at the spring with jugs of all sizes to collect the cool unadulterated water.
I recall how around the spring's orifice was found this very rich black mud which my mother often collected to plant her flowers. She swore it was the most nutritious soil for her flowers to grow in.
El Rio Cibuco was not far from the spring. It was a modest winding river whose waters tended to be a little murky with reddish mud as the currents wiped at the earth on each side of the river.
During rainfalls, my father located 55 gallon drums to catch runoff water from our humble home's corrugated tin roof. I remember how that rain water had a faint sweet taste to it a few days after it had settled in the drums.
Yes, water-water was every where. There was enough water to meet everyone's need.
So most people have water for 1 day on, then 2 days off. What are they doing for bathing on the 2 off days, taking sponge baths?
I was in Puerto Rico for one week from August 30th to Sept 6th. During that time, water was available everywhere I stayed. There was only one place wherein water was marginally curtailed in the Bayamón area. It was as if the potable water pumps were secured after at a certain time of the evening, and the residences were left to feed off whatever water remained in the bulk storage tanks. Although the flow was noticeably reduced, there was enough water flow to cover every basic water need including showers.
It is REAL!!! If you are a tourist staying in hotels or resorts you are fine, the west side of the island is fine too as they get a lot of water, the problem is in certain parts of the metro area, depending from which reservoir the water is coming from. In the affected areas you get water one day and the following 2 days no water at all..
You get used to it, when the water is back it has this nasty weird color, so we just buy water to drink, collect water when is available to take a nice bath bucket powered.
We are collecting water from the rain to flush the toilets too, now every drop counts, we got some rain but it is not enough ...
I think humans can adapt to situations we cant control, it really feels like after a hurricane.
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