OT: First world problems? A day without water....

Aug 14, 2022 Last reply: 3 years ago 7 Replies

Many in our area have no water. A pipe has burst and it's 5 metres underground, UU are working on it but households have been without running water since yesterday.



Now i'm lucky, our supply is normal but I could have foregone this morning's shower, we've a bit of bottled water that I could have used for the coffee earlier and i've a fridgefull of wine (home brew) that i'm currently enjoying. I get that it is more difficult for people with kids etc, who aren't alcoholic....



But the outrage on social media! ####ing hell! I'm working my way through several hundred rants on facebook. You'd think they'd planned it! We really do have it too good in this country.


5 metres sounds really deep for a water main pipe......

We've had a new bathroom fitted upstairs since we bought the house, and the old downstairs one turned into a walk in shower.

I got them to feed the upstairs cold from the mains. After all we clean our teeth with it.

The downstairs all comes from the loft tank - same pressure for H&C in the shower. And the toilet has a nice big loft tank in case the mains goes off for a while.

Andy

Normally most water companies do two things. 1 they do station tankers in the areea, and for those not mobile will deliver a palette of bottled water to the address. Thames Water do this and southern Water did. Brian

We've had a road closed for about a week due to a water main repair. The main was repaired quickly enough but it was too hot for the tarmac to set.

Owain

And due to a lack of running water I have been using the girls toilets for a week.

surely both the boys toilets and the girls toilets would be both be without running water?

But the ones in the girls toilets I put "out of order" notices on still have a cistern full of water:-)

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