Water woes

For ever and ever... i.e. approximately 20 years ago( :D )when i started comprehending the yelling and babbling in most localities and societal regions in India about limited water supply - i was led to believe that India is the only shoddy godforsaken place which has the stupidest Municipality system etc. etc.B.U.T. now there is a worse-off place or equally shoddy godforsaken place in another part of the world which shares India's woes... or so it seems to me!

Our very own Midrand, Jo'burg or well my housing complex (to be more precise) has in my overall 4 month stay has had atleast 5-6 water cuts without Anyone having a clue on what is happening, and Neither are they curious!  Atleast in India, you hear a lot of ascension in decibel levels, ye ol' ladies yelling away or some old blighted man going bonkers throwing his chappal ( slippers) at whosoever he thinks is responsible for whatever is wrong and adding some unrelated woes on this one water problem in his narration/ yelling.

Here in Midrand even if you knock on the door and ask a neighbour or strain your ears for any sound/trace of disapproval - you shall return thoroughly disappointed! Nobody is vocal!! I cannot say they are not irritated, but usually they go about whatever they are supposed to do - water or no water! Perhaps what got me immensely mad was the fact that i saw atleast 4 people ready and on their way out of the complex with office-overalls ties, shoes, etc etc - when there wasn't even a drop of water to brush or even flush your toilet! 

I was curious! How exactly did they reach that stage in adorning raiments when we couldn't even get through the stage of brushing and flushing?!!

 The basic system is to have a care-taker in the housing complex ( ours doesn't even live here inside the complex!) for discussing issues and possibly getting a solution out of. But the norm is when you call him, he actually gets the news from you and has no idea whatsoever! 

Then you decide you want to yell at your estate-agent; who again duly shirks off the responsibility or knowledge as basically "water is governed by the Municipality". 

Municipality won't pick your calls as they know they blocked out the water without informing!! 

Solution: Get the bloody hell out of the complex as soon as you can find a better -"without water woes"-place; given that you do find something like that at all!