I’m finally re-connected to the internet and I am back home! Unfortunately, I was completely unaware of the water restrictions that started last Friday. The residents of Eden Island are very lucky; that’s what wealth bestows upon people – the luxury of water from the taps, when the rest of the country is without. In the early hours of this morning, I was swimming in a clean but over-chlorinated pool of water that was constantly being filtered and tonight I’m going to bed un-showered. Thankfully, I have no plans to leave my house tomorrow so I won’t have to leave the house in this humiliating state.
Today, I had to wash my hands with mineral water and I’m walking around with a hand sanitizer. It is almost 11pm and there’s no water. This is disappointing. What about the people who cannot afford mineral water from the shops – what will they drink? How can they cook their food? How can they wash their dishes, how can they cook their food? What on earth is happening here? It’s enough that they shut down the water supply after 8-9pm (when most people leave for work) until around 4-6pm when most people return. But this has just gone overboard today.
This country has nothing to offer,slow internet yet expensive and disconnected out of random and no water supply at the time where people need it. Really frustrating living in this country.
Hi Ronald, thanks for visiting my blog!
Seychelles can definitely be a very frustrating place to live in, many of the locals feel this way. The water situation has improved in my place, so I have no complaints for now. I do enjoy living abroad, and I do miss being abroad sometimes. Having said that, I feel very at home here and it’s still my favourite place at the moment.
Water is becoming a serious issue these days. It is unfortunate to know that there is scarcity of water in your country. I hope the problem gets resolved and may never come back again.
I’m sure it’s something we’ll be experiencing for a while, until we find a better solution. We do have a desalination plant, but apparently if we are experiencing severe drought in the country then there’s nothing much they can do because the salty water has to be diluted with rain water (or something like that).
Water is becoming a rare resource now a days because in many cases it is mismanaged. I do not know about your place Sabrina, but I do understand that it is frustrating for a person who had enjoyed luxry of having plenty of water in the morning and in the even it becomes scarce comodity.
In our country and especially in my city, we are extremely fortunate to have lot of water. However, one bad thing about this is that many people waste water as it is available free of cost and it is available in more than sufficient quantity.
Water is available free of cost in your country? That’s amazing! Here in Seychelles on average I pay about $10 per person per month for our water bill. At the moment, it flows with no restrictions (but this happens only when there is no drought in the country, and they are more lenient in districts that are not so populated).