@Picidae that is extremely good service, I’ve always found the water board here to be very obliging. Before they put a pump in for us the water pressure was extremely slow and there was never any water until the evening, they brought us a bowser and placed it in the front garden close to the door while the did the work.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Weirdl,y water is much more reliable in cities and we don't realise how precious it is . WE, I hope things get sorted as a priority for you. Wars will be fought over water rather than oil in the future. Buy land in the west of the British Isles and leave it to your grandchildren.
The water is back on but the colour of weak tea despite running it for nearly an hour. I took photos as Welsh Water are pretty good at refunding for dirty water too. No bath for baby tonight. He's normally very laid back but he's a very sad baby at the moment.
I'm generally prepared for a break in water supply as I grew up with very patchy water and electric. I had plenty to drink here and normally we would have been fine but it hit at just the wrong time when we needed a lot of water.
I use old 5 litre bottles in the garden a lot. I sort my various gravel mulches into them ready for adding to potted plants, store comfrey and nettle tea in them, I've used them to make drip waterers for plants, they make good cloches/slug barriers, all kinds of stuff. Normally I recycle before reuse with plastic but they're so handy I make an exception.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
It's worth camping for a month or two and having to carry all your own water far, to get an appreciation of how important - and heavy - water is.
I lived in SE Asia for years, where we had a trickle shower and had to filter and/or boil everything we drank. Most local people washed in a bucket. We had no washing machine. I have never lost the appreciation for a hot bath, helpful machines and plenteous, clean water from the tap. I think it's the pinnacle of functional, domestic infrastructure. It's astonishing how much of it goes into creating national, on demand potable water.
I also lived for a while in Hawaii where a lot of rural people live off-grid. Which was utterly miserable. No hot water, no power to run a washing machine without bright sunshine. Oh, God the waiting for the clouds to clear. Days longing for a real shower. These were poor communities and a long time before good battery tech was available.
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Wars will be fought over water rather than oil in the future. Buy land in the west of the British Isles and leave it to your grandchildren.