Water Over Electricity
There have been times when I have lacked water and that was a result of a lack of electricity. In my country, we don't have a steady electricity supply, neither do we get water from the waterboard. Most houses have a borehole water pump machine installed that supplies water to the house. When there is no electricity, this means there's no water.
Some people have the luxury of having petrol powered generators that can be used to pump water in absence of electricity from the power companies. I've been in situations where there was no electricity for weeks, neither was the generator functional. In such cases, I had to go to other houses looking for water. When I was younger, I mostly fetched water from wells which we used in bathing and cooking. We got drinking water from a family friend who had a tap just in front of his house.
It's very easy to live without electricity because we're used to it here. There are public places to charge your appliances, phones and laptops, hand-washing in place of machine wash because we didn't grow up with washing machines anyway. There's the launder to iron your important clothes if you really need to because you really just get used to wrinkled clothes.It gets very hot but even new born babies have to adapt to hot nights here, thank God for rechargeable fans these days.
In as much as I hate drinking water, I can't go without drinking at least a litre of water for a whole day or cook anything without water. Neither can I go without bathing a day or doing my laundry in a week. Life revolves around the use of water and no doubt necessary for the survival of all living things.
My obvious pick between living without water or electricity for a week would be electricity. I've literally lived a major part of my life without electricity and I survived. But water? No way!
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What a difficult situation, my friend, both water and electricity are super important. I can't imagine myself without either one. Here the electricity is cut during storms and we already had a pretty bad time for just a few hours.
There's no way to live without water but for electricity, there are ways around it at least from my experience.
water, he no get enemy, water no get enemy
I think every Nigerian kid had same memories 🤣
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Este post me hizo sentir muy agradecida por haber crecido en Estados Unidos, donde siempre tuvimos agua y electricidad. Incluso durante un huracán (soy de Florida) teníamos un generador y nunca nos quedamos sin ella. Aunque solía acampar mucho al aire libre y he estado sin ambas cosas. No puedo imaginarme tener que vivir sin electricidad. Este post me ha hecho sentir muy mimada pero también agradecida.
Gracias por compartir este post.
Con amor,
Cyn
Gracias por tu comentario Cyn. Es bueno expresar gratitud por lo que consideramos las pequeñas cosas y, como tú, estoy agradecido de vivir una vida un tanto mimada ahora.
Me encanta tu nombre de usuario lol y sí es increíble estar agradecidos por todo lo que tenemos grande o pequeño. Me alegro de que estés viviendo una vida mimada ahora. Deseo eso para todos.
Gracias 😊
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Hehehe, no way without water!!!
Thanks for sharing @wolfofnostreet.
Good luck with the contest.
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I've never gone without water or electricity for more than a day as long as I can remember. Thus living in a country with a high standard of Living we tend to take for granted how difficult life would be without them even when we have an abundance of water but is it safe usable water?
It's why I appreciate you girls from other countries sharing your experience and I have made preparations to mitigate the loss of these utilities.
Thanks for sharing @wolfofnostreet 🤗
You can definitely survive in a zombie apocalypse compared to me
Thank you for sharing @wolfofnostreet
I sure would 😄