00:00 the water.
00:03 Six tanks all empty.
00:05 It's been about two months since Ramradsabrian and his family of seven have gone without
00:11 a pipe-borne supply of water.
00:14 Despite all his Wasa bills paid in full and on time, he says he has not even been able
00:20 to get a truckload delivered to his Lauki Trace, Charlo village, Pinal home.
00:26 Over the past two months we have had no water.
00:30 All we built is water.
00:32 We have no errors.
00:33 I just had a full water in my farm.
00:36 If I had to buy a load of water, it's $350 to $400.
00:42 It's unfair to me, paying a Wasa bill, and you have to pay so much money.
00:47 And that's all the water I have to wash and to shower and see about the laundry and everything.
00:55 I still have to go in the grocery and spend $100 in the grocery for water for you to drink
01:00 and cook.
01:01 Many of the families along this trace have learned to depend heavily on rainfall.
01:07 But amid the current heat spell, that too has failed to deliver.
01:11 This neighbour is weak.
01:12 He can go to the Trace and fill water.
01:14 What about me, who has my P2?
01:16 I can't go nowhere and fill no water.
01:18 I'm not young like I used to be.
01:20 I can't do it, no water.
01:21 I feel like I'm going to cry, but I don't cry.
01:22 Sometimes I have no water to drink.
01:23 I strain in all the water.
01:25 I want to unstrain it, black thing in the strainer, because water I'm not supposed to
01:32 drink because I don't have water.
01:34 I don't know when it's coming.
01:35 Sometimes I can't bathe.
01:36 Wasa tell you we're into vagrants.
01:37 Come on, man.
01:38 We smell funny because we can't bathe.
01:39 And we feel like a vagrant, to be honest with you.
01:40 We feel like a vagrant.
01:41 I feel like a vagrant.
01:48 And while some of the adults complain of not being able to bathe, children too are significantly
01:55 impacted, with these siblings missing school for over a week as a result.
02:01 I have three small children in my hand.
02:04 They don't even have water for them right now.
02:08 They're home for the past week and more because they have no water to wash school clothes.
02:11 They even, for them to bathe, for them to drink, we have to ask neighbours.
02:16 We need a supply of water.
02:17 If we could get water one time for the week, just one time for the week, you understand?
02:22 So we could fill up the containers and the tank and we could have water.
02:27 What's really going on, Wasa?
02:29 You can't be taking people's money as normal for your Wasa bill and you're not giving them
02:35 any water.
02:36 If this gets worse, I will take Wasa to court.
02:40 I will take Wasa to court.
02:42 I really fed up.
02:44 When we contacted Wasa on the concerns raised by Lauki Trace residents, Corporate Communications
02:49 Manager Daniel Plenty said they were looking into it but up to news time did not provide
02:55 a response.
02:57 Cindy Raguba Tika Singh, TV6 News.
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