Water For Days! Kinda.
After over a full year of dealing with the inconsistency of water availability, I am no longer surprised when water doesn't pour out the faucet when I open the tap. In our neighborhood of Guadalupe, El Molino, water is available in the mornings from around 5:30am to 1:30pm. Tanks of water are filled up daily to be used for bucket baths, cooking, washing dishes and pour-flushing the toilet in the afternoons once the water is turned off for the day. When the tanks run out, my family has a well in the backyard and, since I still can't figure out the flick of the wrist required to fill up the pail, my host brother is kind enough to pull water from it when I ask nicely. Of all the things I could have been forced to live without, running water all day long was definitely not the worst. I quickly become used to washing dishes with a jug of water, using face wipes to wash my face at night, saving my showers for the morning (not the best after an evening run, but...