No Water or No Electricity?

I think you can sue that landlady for breach of contract. If you have been paying rent punctually, the fault is all hers for having the connection cut. If she is a nice lady, I guess you can close one eye this time. But if she is a nasty girl, you should insist she allow you to pay less rent next time. As for your question, I think both are equally important. I would hate to lose either.

Gosh I hate when that happens! Especially during a blackout those are the worst. I think I would rather lose water than electricity. Water I can deal without, it would be easy for me to just run next door to my best friends house and shower or whatever I need to do. But electricity, nope! I don't like being in the dark lol. It would be such an inconvienence to some things like drying and straightening my hair, MYLOT!, light in general, charging my cell phone, etc.

Actually I think you could sue your landlady for breach of contract, especially if you've been paying rent punctually. Not only that, she didn't "forget" to pay her bill. Companies these days will send out a letter to let you know that you have so long to pay the bill or they'll disconnect the supply. She knew the bill was due but she's spending the money you pay in rent somewhere else. I've been without electricity and heat for 2 days back at Christmas when the apartment building opposite ours in the complex burnt down. The fire crews switched off the electricity and it was 2 days before they would allow it to be turned back on. Worse still, when they did, our apartment suffered a surge and it blew up the power supply to our PC. It took us a good while before we could afford to get a new power supply. No heat, no hot water, no electricity for 2 days. It sucked!

This is a tough one. having no electrisity would suck. I couldn't even cook my food or surf the net :). Although if I had to walk around stinky and not at all comfortable would suck too. You know, I don't even want to think of that :).

Sorry that happened to you I would have hated it. Anyway, that's a hard pick for me. I would say I need both equally. If I don't take showers my face/skin and hair get really greasy, so I need at least one shower each day. But also, without electricity, I wouldn't have been able to get online (well, I could have, but just for an hour or so before the laptop battery depleted), couldn't watch the news about Virginia Tech on TV, couldn't turn on the lights. Over the weekends I'd pick to lose water, because showering isn't as needed for me on the weekends. For a weekday, I would pick to lose the electricity. However, that's a pretty tough choice and I hate the thought of it!

of course no electriciy.. because water is the liquid in human bodies.. our bodies contain 78% of water.. if im not mistaken.. without electricity.. it's hot.. but atleast we still can survive.. in long term.. water will be much more important than electricity.. if you think of short term, then i would agree that electricity is much important.. because we can last 2 days without water.. if the water supply is to be cutted for more than 2 days... then i'm sure many will suffer :).. hope my post is not too long

I was going to say I would rather have water but I couldn't have a shower with out the electricity and wouldn't be able to chat to you all on My Lot either , But I would choose water I think , I was thinking the same as the others that you could hold back rent , but if it wasn't her fault and she was nice I wouldn't do that either , hope it doesn't happen again though xx

Well me personally I would have to say electric but I have a son that has ashma and he is on a machine at night, so if that happen to me i would be in deep trouble. And if I had no water then we would be in even more trouble.

I don't like both. If you ask me to choose, maybe I still choose better no electricity then without water. I've been in that situation too, my developer got trouble with water supply for a week at that time. And we were so mad about that, but we still can took the water from the developer by queue in the water tank, so we brought our pail at that time -lol- we also can bought water to other people also. Funny and tragic condition.

i would rather lose Electricity (if my kitchen is armed on Gas-stove) !! without water we just can't survive... wihtout electricity u can still manage with Candles, keeping windows open for Air etc. But no water mean no taking bath...restromm usage ..list goes on... what do you say ?

The choice between water and electricity would totally depend on how long it was going to be off. If it were half a day, no water would be fine. If it came time to needing showers and so forth, I would rather do with out electrics because I can heat my water without electricity. In the winter, I would rather have the water cut for awhile than the electrics because it gets dark early and stays darklate, and the house would get very cold.

water is most necessary for living beings one cannot live without water.in the same way we are very much been used too electricity.according to me nobody in present generation can live without water and electricity.

Well I wouldnt want to lose either and if your rent was payed then you should'nt have to worry about anything like that either. Never the less if I had to choose I guess Id want to be without the water. At least with no water you can shower at friend and family but with no electricty you cant do anything normal at home.

This Happens to me often, Me and my husband live in a house,where very often we have a big fight with our house owner for water. Usually they dont fill water to the overtank and ultimately that will lead to great disappointment when it is needed for the day. Each and everytime we have to remind them to fill the overtank. Once my servant maid didnt close the tap properly which made all the water to get out of the tank and the tenants were suffering from water scarcitiy and finally my houseowner insisted to be very careful. So experience differs.

i prefer most of water.its very important.how will i take shower if no water, how will i drink if no water at all.even without electricity i can handle the situation as long as the water is existing.lol!

tough luck for you my friend... as to your question, i would rather have both, you see, i worked in a water utility agency and we need electricity to pump water into the our pipe grid. and if ever our power is cut-off we have our standby generator sets to pump water which is too costly for operations...

I'd prefer no water than no electricity.. why? because I can just buy water while electricity of course not. I cannot live without electricity, It's very hard when you cannot charge your phone, use your pc and most of all light and air.

I'd rather have no electricity than have no water. Water is essential in our daily lives and not having for even just a single hour would mean a great problem. Electricity is a secondary need though it's also very important nowadays. At the end of the day, we would still realize that we cant sacrifice the essentials with the secondary needs.

even if it would be hard for me but i can live without electricity.. but i can never live without water! ;) it is one of the basic needs and i cant imagine life without water.. i'd rather not watch tv or not use appliances but never will it happen that i will not take a bath or drink water anywhere hehe...

i'd rather have no electricity, i can go to a friend's if i wan to use the computer or watch tv, but i'd rather shower in my own house.