October 11, 2009
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Water Woes
So the next time you turn on your water faucet…….think of us in Botswana and say a prayer!
This is what is coming out of mine……
And if you think that’s bad……this is my toilet!
The flush gives a rather dramatic effect………black!
Yes folks…..that really is water!
As mentioned in my previous post we’ve had some water issues. Well now I can safely say it’s really a water crisis as we’ve not had real water coming out of our taps in like 6 days. The whole village is in crisis. Water Affairs isn’t even responding. I guess it’s hard to respond when you don’t have the answers.
Due to the fact that LBOM operates a school of almost 300 students you can imagine that water is pretty essential. I mean just think about all those toilets…….yes, it’s gross! Because Water Affairs wasn’t responding, leadership had to search out options to get some water. Linda found a company that was willing to bring in some truck loads of water. Albeit that the water was pulled strait from the river……something that is not in crisis as the rivers are flowing!
On Saturday the trucks came and filled our big (and very empty!) water resevoir. For those of you who have been following my blog for any length of time you might remember the post (and pictures) of us cleaning out the water resevoir. (I’ll try to hunt down that post!
Here it is by the way! ) It was complete sludge on the bottom…..they were pulling it out by the buckets! Well, all that water added in kicked up all the sludge and mixed with the fact that it was river water anyway…….well, you get the idea! We were hoping that it would settle a bit, but it seems to be all floating around! So I know you’re wondering…….
“Has Sarah showered in that?”The answer is a resounding “Yes!”
Okay, have you lost all respect for me?
Remember this girl did outreach in the bush for two months at a time with showers that probably were not much cleaner than this, and I did on numerous occasions bath in the river. I just say a little prayer that any amoeba’s die and that I don’t get sick! I have full faith for that…..that’s easy for me!
I am however being careful with dishes as I have bottles that need to be washed. Thankfully I have some extra non dirty water that I reserved for Piper’ stuff. I haven’t done laundry…..there just is no use.
So yeah…..that’s whats happening in the Witt World, in case you ever wonder.
Do say a prayer for us though…..it would be nice to wash those stinky cloth diapers that are in my wetbag in the bathroom! On a total side note…….
Andrew (who should be sleeping) is singing a lovely rendition of Jesus Loves Me complete with excerpts of Row Row Row your Boat and The Wheels on the Bus. It’s quite funny!And just to leave you with some pretty pictures after all that yucky water…..
Comments (2)
i hope the water issues are fixed by now. no fun!
Water situation any better? What about whatshisname that we used to buy water from? Can you still get it from him? No, didnt lose respect… actually gained some bravery points from me.