'When the well is dry, we know the worth of water'

One thing I have learnt while I've been here is to not be surprised to wake up to no electricity or running water. Sometimes we go for days without a shower and it's just as well that we are girls! This time last week the Milimani Estate ran out of water. People were walking around with buckets searching for any drop of water. Apparently, the water tanks in SABACH are miraculously always filled up, but not for the last 2 weekends.

You never really think about what might happened when there is no water because it's unlikely to ever happen in Sydney. So I've compiled a list of things that you cannot do when there is no water:

1) No shower - extra deodorant and you are good as gold

2) No drinking water - we usually boil and store as much water as we can in bottles. You never know when water will run out

3) No water to brush your teeth - Listerine!

4) No toilet - no water to flush, so we try not to go too many times, which isn't too much of a problem since we are not drinking a lot of water. It can become a bit of a problem after a couple of days though. We have miraculously found a random tap which has water so if we are desperate we can manually flush using a big bucket.

5) No tea - this is a big, serious problem for me

6) No dishes - our sink gets quite a neat stack of plates and bowls. We would usually boil water to do the dishes but again, no water.

7) No cooking - we cannot cook pasta or rice or basically anything that requires soaking

8) No vegies/fruit - (linked to no. 7) unless it has skin, everything needs to be soaked in water and bleach

9) No laundry - of course!

Jesus answered, 'Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.'      

John 4:13-14