Water

No, we haven't had water for a full 2 days. If we had a well, then it would be less inconvienent. But when you have a house infrastructure for running water and there is none, let me tell you, it's pretty annoying. (see traditional village well)

For over a year now, we'd had severe water cuts daily. The trend now is that we will not have any water upstairs in the morning through early afternoon. We'll have water for a few hours in the afternoon, but at 4:30pm it starts to dry up. Around 8pm we'll get water again upstairs. Downstairs we'll have limited water in the morning and in the afternoon. however, there are some days where we don't have any at all.

I've finally gotten used to the schedule you have when you have water only a few hours a day. But when it was off for 2 days and we had to send out for water from Danfaga's well, well it was pretty irritating. Brook says "It's Africa", which of course that's true but we're also not living in a village and we don't have a well. We're paying for a service that isn't coming.

Our freelance plumber guy says that one of the water pumps is broken so the water is depleted in the morning and afternoon and can't refill itself quickly. I suppose the question becomes where is the line where you "suck it up" and shrug your shoulders and say with a smile, "Ah, this is just Africa", and when do you say, "Come on, this is a ridiculous. Let's just all go back to having a well and forget about this attempt at infrastructure". For me that line is on the afternoon of Day 2 of having no water but am I being unreasonable? I don't know.

We got water briefly last night by the way, a running (rather dribbling) water shower, but guess what? It's off again today. Thank God for buckets filled with water, not the Senegalese water company.