Urgh! There will be water disruption in my area from 8am Wednesday to 8am Friday. It seems like almost the entire Petaling Jaya and most parts of Kuala Lumpur would be affected.
You can check if your area’s involved here: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=229138477099369
By the way, you’ve got to like the Facebook Page before you could view anything. And uhhh, you have to know how to read Malay. My dogsitter, who lives in the neighbourhood across from mine had totally no inkling about the water cut until I asked her.
I didn’t receive any notice in the post box (although I had in the past for water cuts of much shorter periods), so I imagine SYABAS (the private corporation that owns our water supply and hence our asses too) did not even bother to notify anybody off the Internet.
Since we have the privilege of knowing about the water cut before it happens, last night, we went to Tesco to hunt for water containers.
Unfortunately, only puny buckets that were neither big nor small and very space wasting were available. In the end, we ditch the idea of buying new water containers and decided we would have better luck using whatever that was available at home.
# – 2 tumblers of water for brushing teeth and washing face.
# – 51 litres of water for short showers. No hair washing, thankfully I’m wearing my hair short and the BF has none, teehee.
# – Two pails of water for the main toilet. Honestly, I don’t mind being slightly constipated in the next few days :P
# – Some drinking water. Not so worried about this because we could always buy bottled drinking water.
# – Another pail of water in the less used toilet, just in case…
# – And finally, general hand washing water because we’ve got a furkid and all, gotta keep it pretty clean.
Yeap, that’s all. No cooking. No washing dishes. We’ve stocked up two days’ worth of microwaveable food that can be nuked and eaten from its own containers.
# – Frozen, processed food. Yums.
Why? Because there wouldn’t be any food establishment within 30km radius of our home that wouldn’t affected by the water cut. And the last thing we want is bouts of diarrhoea during this time…
And ya, food posts would probably be published intermittently during this period :(
Good luck to everyone in the Klang Valley!
take a trip down to PJ old town, go into the road that leads to MacD…. you’ll find a lot of water storage containers on sale there…
thanks for the tip! my mom said the same, but we figured we could make do la…unless the water cut continue beyond the stipulated period, then we’ll be screwed!
Doesn’t your house have a big water storage tank under its roof? Many houses now have those and almost all of the water from their taps come from the water storage tank. Only the kitchen taps have direct water from the mains.
i do, but from my years of experience with water cuts, u tend to wanna leave the storage tank as the last resort, after all the other water have been exhausted! hehehe
Big ass water tanks are a must, living in the Klang Valley. I have one bathroom that has a shower connected to both mains and water tank(with a one-way valve). If there’s a water cut, it will automatically revert to water tank supply, albeit at a lower pressure. But at least I can still shower! It also helps that the tank is 1500 litres :D My only fear, jealous neighbours during prolonged water cuts…
Yah we actually have the same system (one way valve and a big tank – the tank only kicks in if there’s no pressure from the mains). But it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Be prepared yo! And never take a shower thinking it’s ok cos you have a tank, it’ll empty the tank in 3 minutes flat.
thanks so much for the heads up! however, my side is not affected..but i’ll be storing up water just in case..
lucky you! kind of funny how we don’t really have faith ya…even if my area not on the list also i think i would have stored some water just in case!
hahahaha nope! it’s best not to, since we’re in malaysia anyway..and everyone knows it’s always better to be extra careful especially in cases like this..i’d rather be safe than sorry..
gotta save save water for the next 2days….n gotta find alternative to shower incase all the water out!!
yeah, start to find out which friend is living in non-affected areas lol
Reminds me of water cuts in the hostel during uni days years ago. Had to line up with pails to get water kesiannn. Thinking back, I am still amazed with how much actually one full pail of water can stretch….brush teeth, bathe, wash face, some light washing of mugs and still got leftover! and then it made me realise how much water I actually waste during a normal shower when there was no water supply disruptions…. :p
i know what you mean! but showers are really slow cause you have to think strategically where to pour the water and from which direction to rinse effectively lol
times like this i’m glad there’s tank at home. yey!
you’ve got many ppl living in your house, you better store more though hehe
Tell me about it. I only heard about it yesterday when I picked my boyfriend up after work!
Thank goodness I’ve got a bunch of plastic bottles put aside (for recycling) that I filled up with filtered water (for drinking, cleaning veg or cooking) but we only have two buckets for other stuff…
i’m sure you’ll manage, don’t worry!
Oddly there’s still enough in the reserve tanks :) haven’t had to use any that I’ve put aside yet!
believe it or not, i still have water pressure and it’s already the 2nd day. i am confused!
Luckily, my mom had collected a few pails of water… I heard about the water cut in the news yesterday.
moms are the best, my mom actually informed me last week!