Hot day coming and no water! Tips please!

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Well it's going to be a sunny day and I'm at home with my 2 dd's and I have woken to discover we have no water.

I have about 2 litres in a couple of plastic jugs and a half filled water table with water from about a week ago.

Any tips for how to survive! Also worried about flushing toilets!

Are you near a shop?

If I'm honest I would just go out for the day. The weather is fine where I am, if you're the same I would decamp to a park with toilets and/or a water fountain. Take blankets, toys, snacks etc and aim to spend the whole day out the house!

Have you contacted your water board and are your neighbours the same?
If your neighbours have water, get a few buckets and ask for some from them and call a plumber.
If it’s area wide then contact your water authority.
Don’t flush the loo.

The whole area is without water. The nearest 4 villages all affected so sadly no neighbour help.

I need to stay in for a delivery until 2 so I'm going to hope it comes early and then I can go out!

Hopefully it will fixed soon, if it’s an emergency maybe the water authority will provide a standpipe or bottled water.
Is there a text alert you can sign up to? We had one giving hourly updates when our power was cut off, and they brought a soup/hot drinks van round.

What other drinks do you have in the house? Fruit juice, milk, soft drinks, or yoghurt, or ice cream in the freezer? They will all help you to keep cool.

The waterboard has to supply you with water bottles if your water is down for any length period of time.

Have you contacted them??

As a seasoned Burner (google it!), I think 2 litres is plenty to get you through the day - especially as it isn’t going to be scorching. Chill the water you do have - little sips of very cold water are more refreshing than gulps of room temp water. Same goes for ice cubes, make a couple to suck on.

Just go to thr shops when your delivery has been.

Contact the water board they should deliver water to areas that are without. Either by tanker or bottled water

Thanks all!

Well the delivery hasn't been yet, but the water is back on now. The random sputtering it causing much hilarity with my girls. So it's a free entertainment day!

The local authority said if it goes longer than 6 hours then they provide bottled water. They were good at updating us on progress too.

I managed to get the last of the water from the system into a basin and set it up as a hand washing station. We also instigated a no flush on the toilet, I figured each toilet had one flush and we have 3. So we made it work!