That's the week the water went out in Izmit ...
The water's been out off an on this week.
It's made for some interesting mornings.
Here in the Kocaeli region, and Izmit where I live, there is a shortage of water in the reservoir - or so I'm told. Anything concrete about the water shortage is in Turkish, therefore, difficult for me to understand.
So for the time being, which could be for the rest of December from what I've heard, the water is off in irregular intervals. The definite time we are supposed to have water is Midnight to 8 a.m.
The worst mornings are the ones when we forget to prefill our kettle the night before with water.
Imagine this people: You wake up, try to splash some cold water on your face - and none is there. You turn the faucet handle and nothing comes out.
So you head to the kitchen to turn on the kettle, but there's no water in it. Damn. Forgetting about the lack of bathroom water, you head to the sink and turn the handle. Nothing comes out. Oh yeah, there's no water.
The water shortage only affects houses and not businesses, so I brush my teeth and comb my hair at school.
Even though I walk out of my apartment feeling kind of gross, there's about 1,000,000 people in my region who are in the same waterless boat. It's quite common to see people with messed up hair or without a shave in the past few days. The city has kind of banded together in a filthy solidarity. Most of my students look less unkempt than previous weeks and we joke about not having water.
"Su yok?" Which means, "No water?"
Surprisingly, the worst part about the water isn't the absence of regular showers or morning tea. It's the irregularity of having water. Some mornings its on. Most mornings its not. We're supposed to be guaranteed water Midnight through 8 p.m., but that's not always the case. For the last two night we didn't have water. At least not while I was awake.
We never know when we are going to have water until we turn the handles.
The water's on right now (Saturday, 10:15 p.m. local time) and I'm going to take a shower for the first time in three days.
It's made for some interesting mornings.
Here in the Kocaeli region, and Izmit where I live, there is a shortage of water in the reservoir - or so I'm told. Anything concrete about the water shortage is in Turkish, therefore, difficult for me to understand.
So for the time being, which could be for the rest of December from what I've heard, the water is off in irregular intervals. The definite time we are supposed to have water is Midnight to 8 a.m.
The worst mornings are the ones when we forget to prefill our kettle the night before with water.
Imagine this people: You wake up, try to splash some cold water on your face - and none is there. You turn the faucet handle and nothing comes out.
So you head to the kitchen to turn on the kettle, but there's no water in it. Damn. Forgetting about the lack of bathroom water, you head to the sink and turn the handle. Nothing comes out. Oh yeah, there's no water.
The water shortage only affects houses and not businesses, so I brush my teeth and comb my hair at school.
Even though I walk out of my apartment feeling kind of gross, there's about 1,000,000 people in my region who are in the same waterless boat. It's quite common to see people with messed up hair or without a shave in the past few days. The city has kind of banded together in a filthy solidarity. Most of my students look less unkempt than previous weeks and we joke about not having water.
"Su yok?" Which means, "No water?"
Surprisingly, the worst part about the water isn't the absence of regular showers or morning tea. It's the irregularity of having water. Some mornings its on. Most mornings its not. We're supposed to be guaranteed water Midnight through 8 p.m., but that's not always the case. For the last two night we didn't have water. At least not while I was awake.
We never know when we are going to have water until we turn the handles.
The water's on right now (Saturday, 10:15 p.m. local time) and I'm going to take a shower for the first time in three days.
posted by James at 9:44 PM
3 Comments:
It could be worse. You could be bathing in water so polluted with fertilizer that it makes you gag while you shower and signs are posted on the wall to tell pregnant women not to drink it.
Just like in the San Joaquin Valley.
Sefton
Or it could be snowing outside, like here. Or you could be in Palmdale, or worse, Lancaster.
Turks suck!!! Filthy Turks.
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