What if you had no water?

@savypat (20216)
United States
December 7, 2008 8:03am CST
We woke up today to find we had no water, It's Sunday morning, no coffee, no shower, no flush of toilet. What would you do?
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
7 Dec 08
That's when you would be glad to have one of those out houses. I was with out water for about 3 days one winter because of a snow storm. We hauled water from a friend that still had electricity. We didn't have a shower but just a tub. Needless to say baths were put on hold for a while. Now I always keep some bottled water in big jugs for just such a situation. The worst part would be to have to go with out coffee.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
7 Dec 08
Me too, I keep a couple of large water bottles so that we can flush at least once a day. We live in the country so a water outage is not to unusual. Thanks for the response
@riyasam (16556)
• India
7 Dec 08
everything i ok,i will manage but if here is no water to flush toilets,then how will one survive!!!!this shows me that i have so much to be thankful to GOD and that i should not take these things for granted.
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
7 Dec 08
You are right about not taking things for granted. You are only one broken pipe away from no water, just like the rest of us, even if we have our own wells.
@Gesusdid (1676)
• United States
7 Dec 08
haha ill go to the neighbors house door
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@Shar19 (8236)
• United States
7 Dec 08
I've had this happen a few times in my life but it never lasted for more than a couple days. I remember having to go to the neighbor's house to use the toilet or even get some water to boil. It was a bit of an ordeal but we got through it.
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@relundad (2310)
• United States
7 Dec 08
I would first see what the problem is and find out how long I would be without. Once I have figured out those two I would begin to make my survival plans. I would probally start out by heading to a family or friends place to take showers for the day. If water was not going to be restored by the end of the day, I would go to a hotel or maybe to a relatives house to stay. There is no way that I could go for more than a day with no water.
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
7 Dec 08
Hi pat! I hate to tell you how many times I have had that problem! It is one of the worst problems where I live! It unfortunately happens more times then I can count! It totally can throw off your day! I can't function or go out without taking a shower! I have had to go to work without being able to shower and felt disgusting all day long until I got home so I could first shower and feel better! And forget the toilet! We get one flush and if you don't know that you have no water until after you flush forget it! I always keep water in the refrigerater, but that doesn't help with the necessary essentials! Hope you got your water back on quickly!
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@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
12 Feb 09
Personally, that is not something I would want to wake up too. I think we value our Water here too much, and if something like this was to happen without notice, I would be on the Phone to find out what is going on, and make sure something is done about it soon. When you are needing Water for a shower, to brush your teeth, etc. it is important to have, and when there is an interuption like this, it can be a hard thing to deal with for sure.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
12 Feb 09
Re read what you wrote and you will see that you along with the rest of us take our water for granted, we expect someone to provide it. We pay for it so we feel that it will always be there for us. This is where we all need to wake up, there is only so much fresh water and humans continue to consume this at an alarming rate. Sure we think it will be recycles but much of the use we the water to is not easily recycled, we fill it with all type of pollutants and in many cases make it unusable for many years. We all need to become aware. When the water stops at your house it starts you thinking about all this. Thank you
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
7 Dec 08
It is a very normal happening in my place here where the tap suddenly turns dry. I normally use my purchased drinking water to do the morning business and for making coffee. I buy mineral water in big bottles especially for drinking as the tap water has strong chlorine smell and not good for drinking.
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@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
7 Dec 08
I would die without water. So would my plants. But, if it is only for a day I would probably survive. This is a scary prospect, no water. Cheers!!
@bbsr13 (4196)
• India
7 Dec 08
Hello! Life will be simply miserable without water,now you under stood.So learn to save water as far possible.You should save water for the morning needs at least else you will be nowhere.thanx.
@syfarisk (378)
• Malaysia
7 Dec 08
What would I do? I don't know what to do, if that happens. Let's hope it doesn't and will never happen in the future. It can happen though, with the problems that the world is facing today, it has the potential to happen, we never know. But I can honestly say that I don't know what to do if there is no water. Almost everything that we do today requires water, whether directly or indirectly. It'll be difficult, or impossible, to do anything at all without water. Water is too important.
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@vanonas (949)
• United States
7 Dec 08
I would be so upset because I always have to pee and brush my teeth when I wake up!
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@eynjel05 (444)
• Philippines
7 Dec 08
Water is the universal solvient.We need water so that we cannot experience dehydration. Majority of the tasks that we are doing especially in household chores we are using water.I can't imagine life without water.It would be very difficult. But we can't predict of that thing to happen. But if that day will happen, I will surely make ways to have atleast a little water. But I wish it would not be happen.
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@bellebads (740)
• Philippines
7 Dec 08
it's not really a problem to me i will just buy bottled water and used it for my coffee and take a hand towel and splash it with water then wipe the hand towel all over my body. and have some spritz of cologne.
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@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
12 Feb 09
That would suck. I had to run to the store and buy some... but if that was all gone, I don't know what I'd do.