"You get up and go to the loo, only to find the flush doesn't work. You try the shower, except nothing comes out. You want a glass of water, but on turning the tap there is not a drop. Your day stumbles on, stripped of its essentials: no washing hands, no cleaning up the baby, neither tea nor coffee, no easy way to do the dishes or the laundry."
"The water company texts: we are so sorry; colleagues are working to restore connection; everything should soon be normal. You want to believe them, but the more it's repeated, the more it becomes a kind of hold music. There's no supply the next day, and the day after, and the day after that. Each morning brings with it the same chest-tightening question: what will happen today?"
Household water outages leave taps dry and flushes unusable, preventing basic hygiene, bathing, cooking and cleaning. People resort to buckets, bottled water and neighbourly help but continue to feel unclean and anxious. Repeated company reassurances lose credibility when supply failures persist for days, creating daily uncertainty and stress. Schools, GP surgeries and social events close or are cancelled. Local messaging groups fill with urgent updates about bottling stations, long queues and emptied supermarket shelves. Supply interruptions disproportionately affect vulnerable people who cannot carry heavy water packs and strain community networks and social norms.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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