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Q: Do you get water shortages in your area?
We've just had our water cut off again and apparently it's going to be a few days before it's back on. Not the first time it's happened by any means but a few days is an unusually long time. Just been out to fill buckets from a truck they sent round. To their credit nobody was pushing in the lines, except one old lady and that can be excused. There was a moment where one of the large taps kind of broke and water came gushing out. About three or four people standing directly in front of it with empty buckets and not one of them thought to stick one under the flow until my wife shouted at them to pull their fingers out. Do you get this happen much in your neighborhood?
This used to happen where I live, especially during the summer months. Apparently a lot of local factories would have increased water demands (it seems for cooling purposes, lots of injection molding and other plastics businesses around here). So anytime outside the hours of say 9pm - 7am, there would be nary a trickle of water in my 6th floor apartment. Had to resort to either storing buckets of water, or going to the 1st floor public restroom and carrying buckets of water from there. This was considered "normal" by the other residents who had apparently never complained about it before.
Now, there's a pump that gets activated in times of low pressure supply......who's fault could that be 
mArtiAn:
I lived on the 20th floor of a place in Beihai once and we'd get stuck without water there from time to time. Worse still was getting stuck without electricity. One time that lasted a whole day and the wife and I had to make our way down 20 floors in the dark. Heard calls for help on the way down and followed them a lift shaft where it turned out a guy was stuck in a lift complaining that he couldn't breath. He'd already been in there two hours (mid summer) and as it turned out he had to stay in there another four. Guy took a dump in there at some point too apparently. That lift must have gotten funkier than a James Brown concert.
Scandinavian:
ah, our building has emergency powersupply for lifts and lights in the staircases
Was this because of water shortages in the area or a busted pipe somewhere? I used to have to deal with water shortages where they turn your water off for most of the day, except for really obscure hours when no one is home. This is the way they deal with drought in many areas.
The day it rained everyone was out on the street collecting buckets of rain water. My neighbour noticed I wasn't home and filled up some buckets for me too. 
Nope, not here. But China has a huge water supply problem. They are currently building a water way from south to north to supply the Beijing area. This will mean that pollution from the southern factories will potentially affect farmland throughout the country.
China is extremely wasteful with water. And the few sources left are being polluted. The per capita water usage could be drastically cut down by people learning to use their brain and maybe getting a few superstitions weeded out.
