Boiling water..
And the water riots have come to an end, on the discovery that actually supermarket chains serving 58 million people DO have the bottled water to serve 250,000 people. Seriously though, having to remember not to drink from the tap is very hard. It is so natural to just grab a glass pour and drink when thirsty that have to stop myself doing it (and have forgoten serveral times).
We do have 20 odd bottled/Boiled water bottles full though so finding alternative water is not that hard ;)
Its all a little strange, some of our nigerian firends made us laugh though. Most people when told to boil the water have just been boiling the kettle and thinking thats enough. Rutu realised that, thats silly when they say "boil your water" they assume everybody knows that you have to boil for a minute or more; and as for people sitting with there bottled water then washing up there cups from the tap....
The nigerian friends response to this when rutu told them about the minute thing was, " well yes .. but just take the lid of the kettle and let it boil ... we have been boiling water all our life". Slightly humbling response with all we take for granted..
Baby still not here yet, soon hopefully ..
Oh a hero is in sigh! . .the BBC says ultraviolet light (Man, why am i picturing a man with purple underpants over his trousers....) will save us...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/7476803.stm
We do have 20 odd bottled/Boiled water bottles full though so finding alternative water is not that hard ;)
Its all a little strange, some of our nigerian firends made us laugh though. Most people when told to boil the water have just been boiling the kettle and thinking thats enough. Rutu realised that, thats silly when they say "boil your water" they assume everybody knows that you have to boil for a minute or more; and as for people sitting with there bottled water then washing up there cups from the tap....
The nigerian friends response to this when rutu told them about the minute thing was, " well yes .. but just take the lid of the kettle and let it boil ... we have been boiling water all our life". Slightly humbling response with all we take for granted..
Baby still not here yet, soon hopefully ..
Oh a hero is in sigh! . .the BBC says ultraviolet light (Man, why am i picturing a man with purple underpants over his trousers....) will save us...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/7476803.stm