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Would like to discuss a little thingy here with you.
A city where I'm located right now has been undergoing some major innovations related to roads expansion etc. and sometimes there are really serious consequences or inconveniences as they're called by the authorities in terms of interrupted water/gas/electricity supply to residential areas and living apartments because they need to relocate some sections of water conduit or whatever. So they cut water supply to a residential area where there live about 200 000 people.
Some palliative measures on behalf of the administration however have been taken in terms of delivering water in trucks to residential areas so that people could come up and fill buckets or whatever they have full of water and take it home.
I need your stance, your opinion about this kind of situation. Is it possible in your location? Would it be acceptable for you to live for two days with no water on your tap? Mean not a drop. Nothing. No way to wash hands, yourself, your baby or flush the toilet let alone washing up and cleaning around the house.
It does happen on occasion here too. Sometimes there is a water main break, problems with the pipes, a black out which means no electricty. But these things do not happen on a regular basis. Sometimes there is a situation where we are advised to boil water before using it for a couple of days. I lived in a building for a while which had a lot of plumbing problems. There were frequent times, when they would shut off the water for the entire building for the whole day. It was very uncomfortable.
But no, in general, we do not have the same type of problem that you have at the same level. The West has a better quality of life, but I am sure you know that.
I remember when I lived in Baltimore, we'd have no water for a while sometimes because they were "working" on something. In NYC, I never remember having water problems in Queens. But I was at my friend's apartment last week on the LES & his hot water turns kind of brown sometimes. It's freaking gross.
almuchaluv, where are you from in Russia? I'm from Saint Petersburg.
I was living in Jersey City when the main water main broke several miles from the City and thus the entire city of a quarter million and a couple of adjoining cities were without water for a couple weeks (if memory serves.)
I gathered together about 20 gallon jugs and periodically loaded them into the trunk of an IMMENSE car, drove into New York City and filled them from a hydrant.
Eventually the city worked out a system to deliver water trucks to key parts of the City. But my method worked better because it is impossible to carry 20 gallons and the lines to fill to the limited 2 gallons per person were tedious.
I cannot remember WHAT we did for washing...and it was mid-Summer. I DO remember it was a miserable experience.
Ok....do this now.
Click on "Soviet's" name and look at some of the gem threads he's started.
Classsssssssic stuff. EASILY one of the funniest posters on this site.
They say that's what killed Rome. No water supply, no people
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