Water In Stores
"Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." true words spoken by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798.
After the floods in mid-April purchasing water became a reality, no water flow through taps one quickly realizes the cost of life without this commodity.
Cause makes no difference whether via disaster, climate change, ecosystem upheaval, one commodity we all have to have is water!
Shopping at local stores first and most important commodity is to ensure sufficient drinking water is always available in the home, repairing infrastructure many places are still without water, often disconnection pushes muddied water through meaning all tap water must be boiled before consumption.
Marketing Wow the variety of plastic bottled water took me by surprise, never one to rely on buying only using tap water filtered for drinking in the home this might become the next big thing storing and selling water in glass!
Prices went up quickly on supply and demand, tanks used to refill those awful plastic bottles had sticker systems put onto reusable containers, first the orange to reflect a refill not newly purchased bottle making it a little cheaper, then a blue on top of the orange to show re-use for second round. After that I stopped documenting.
Water tankers and tanks are slowly getting through to more rural regions how the people have suffered in some areas.
Jojo tanks arriving at clinics for installation, these range between 20 litre in size to 20k litres, prices will also go up with current situation, average price 5k litre Jojo is R5 500, installation costs separate, planned use is purely grey water usage.
After Covid with many living on R350 (US$22) per month grant money, consider warehouse price 4 x 5 liter on 'promotion' at R140 (US$8.82), that is only 20 liters and half a months money almost gone. The fancy food stores will sell 5 liter bottle at R24, where you will be limited to the number you take home.
Never take water for granted, we have a constitutional right to water, not so much when it is polluted with plastic, human waste, sewerage, living through droughts and floods shopping for water becomes utmost importance when the taps no longer feed the home.
And so we come to the end of this Market Friday with @dswigle hosting the show. Happy Friday!
All recent photography my own instore cellphone at home using Canon Powershot SX730 HS camera.
Thought for Today: "Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food." - African Proverb