These past few days the temperature is getting severely hot during the day and especially during the evening, it’s already summer.  Water supply has been small since December 2015 and it is getting smaller as the day goes by so we have been busy during the morning collecting water and watering the plants since the water won’t come back anymore until the next day. Yeah right, the warm temperature doesn’t do any good, I felt so terrible and uncomfortable during the day and even I would like to freshen up myself it is impossible because of the poor water supply.

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To add more life discomfort the internet connection isn’t doing well these past few days, and then system failure after the network had maintenance on their system so I am doing nothing much at home but look upon the ceiling and count lizards.

What to expect this summer is heat wave,  a prolonged period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity, especially in oceanic climate countries. Many people has been reported collapsed and died in the street because of heat wave these past few years.

The water supply in our barangay is scarce; it only runs for 2-3 hours in the past three months so we decided to use larger containers to stock water for cooking, the bathroom and kitchen.  And these past few days after many rains the water supply is back to normal it runs throughout the day unlimitedly.

Today, we decided to empty and keep the large containers but before doing it we end up cleaning them because the water quality in our village is not good and not suitable for drinking. The water builds up some solid white particles in the containers, like a hardened limestone’s maybe because the water is coming from the mountain and deposited in a concrete tank uphill.

Anyway, was thankful that we can now wash clothes and rugs any time as well as bath longer too. We also don’t need to collect and fetch water,  when I was young we only used water pitcher pump as water source, there is no running water but today those type of pump are long gone they dries out.