No running water for over 48 hours 😢

[mimi14]

Just that. Our water stopped at 5pm on Saturday, due to a power cut at the water treatment center. They keep estimating a time it will be reconnected, which keeps changing of course. It's out of their hands I guess as they are waiting for UK power networks to fix their issue, but it is awful.

I will never take it for granted again. It's been really difficult to manage as a family of 4.

The toilet is beyond disgusting. We've been filling the cistern every now and again and giving it a flush, but this obviously uses lots of our drinking water every time.

No real point to this post, just wanted to vent really. Has anyone else lost water for so long?

How can the reservoir be empty

Exactly! It's rained for weeks on end!
Still no water 😱 but we've all had a shower and refilled our water bottles, flushed the toilet and feel generally refreshed. So I'm a lot more relaxed tonight. Let's see what tomorrow brings!

Urghhhh we had 4 days a few years ago and it was HELL, so hard to cook without washing hands,isn't it? And the loo,blerk.

It's awful. I think I've already said it on this thread but never again will I take it for granted.

I hope I'll come back here tomorrow with a very wet update 😂🤞🏻

In case anyone is invested in this 🤣 our water has just come back on, after a grand total of 96 hours!

Funnily enough, about 20 minutes before it came on, a man from the water company knocked on the door and gave us 40 litres of water, so we assumed (as did he by the way he spoke) that we still had days to go!

If by reservoir they mean the treated water storage reservoir then it would be empty because the treatment works hadn’t been supplying it. You can raw water reservoirs (the lake type) that supply the treatment works and then there’s storage reservoirs within the distribution network so that will have got drained down once water stopped coming out of the works.

Do you by any lucky chance have a condenser dryer which you've not emptied the tank on lately? Would probably give you a loo flush

That's odd even though it was a few hours old your last post didn't come up until I'd posted that helpful advise OP. Odd.

Glad it’s back. Bet you’ve scrubbed the loo first!