{"time":1702635272088,"blocks":[{"id":"XLBTLTTBiw","type":"image","data":{"file":{"url":"https://amaka-s3-bucket-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/20231126_232837_0000_a88e58c9c0.png"},"caption":"","withBorder":false,"stretched":false,"withBackground":false}},{"id":"8J-y5IwTqM","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":" If you were born in homes where you refreshed the cistern after a little drop of pee please step back, wrong hall, go to the next. We flushed the cistern twice a day, in the morning readying it for the day's dropping, and again in the night after everyone had gone for the day."}},{"id":"_9hRi9UZX2","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"~Conservation tactics 101."}},{"id":"bxtU82j9Ol","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Landlords of compounds that had water were worshiped and you dare not trash-talk their families even if they deserved it else you get to stand back until everyone has fetched first. Most times, even after your candid display or remorse, the water tanks would mysteriously run out of water when it is finally your turn. "}},{"id":"1b-wpG3MfP","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"We had our baths in a narrow tub with a small 1.5-litre pail of water; not more depending on age group (adults got more bathwater) and body size (Bisi is eleven and fat, sorry big so she got 3 liters of bathwater). Normally, you should wet your skin first, lather up with a sponge, and then rinse but when you have got barely two liters of water, you skip wet your skin, and go straight to lather up, and rinse."}},{"id":"0F00NN1yfr","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"~Conservation tactics 102."}},{"id":"IjATolNwCl","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":" We washed clothes only on Saturdays in two big basins. The first basin contained wash water and the other contained rinse water. You do not change the water except if it is dirty enough to stain a black cloth. After washing the dirty water is stored to be used later to flush the cistern, you dare not use fresh clean water on Saturdays when there is dirty wash water else you lose your bath water for the day."}},{"id":"5DHt11IW5q","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"~Conservation tactics 103."}},{"id":"OpK4FE9x5I","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"We drank sachet water instead of tap water because according to Aunty Bonke, \"nobody knows when these water sellers washed their tanks. Who knows, maybe if they open their tanks during heavy rains and let the rainwater fill the tank, demonic people will do anything so they do not buy petrol\". "}},{"id":"mosTfa1eaI","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"We use two bags of sachet water daily, a bag contains twenty sachets, and everyone gets two sachets each day. Age and size don't come into play here."}},{"id":"5DYGzhLTwd","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"~Drinking water equality. "}},{"id":"ibmt7th_HD","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"The equality rule had to be amended after Bisi took a sachet of Tunde's water and a fight broke out. In the end, Tunde ate grass and Bisi got two more sachets of water assigned to her daily."}},{"id":"lJyZFimSCD","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"~ Size factor winning again. "}},{"id":"uA5v9LEaEj","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Growing up in a large middle-class family is like a struggle for survival, one has to adopt ways to strive, Tunde now turns his water into a used plastic Coke bottle and goes everywhere with it. His bottle never leaves his side. Also, he contaminates his water with enough of his saliva. even if he leaves the bottle lying around nobody bothers to take it. Who wants to share Tunde's Mouth bacteria? The boy doesn't brush well."}},{"id":"qmfMDD9sWV","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":" ~Extra measures/Survival tactics"}},{"id":"TxAkzpUTGS","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":" "}},{"id":"R5ZBVXU_u3","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":" "}}],"version":"2.28.2"}