Sri Cassia Condominium residents in Puchong collecting water from the Syabas water tanker on the sixth day of the water cut.
SPENDING nearly a week without water has forced Bandar Puteri Puchong residents to come up with many ways to cope with the crisis.
Many residents of Bandar Puteri 11 reported that the taps went dry last Thursday while some claimed that it happened even earlier, and the first Syabas water tankers only arrived in the neighbourhood late Monday night.
Dr Liau Mooi Tiong’s house was among the last to be reached by the first batch of water tankers in the early hours of Tuesday morning at 2.30am.
While her home’s large water tank could last them about two to three days, that went dry before Syabas’ tankers could reach them.
“We cannot use the toilet, shower or cook and we have to buy mineral water for drinking,” said Dr Liau, 40.
To make sure there was enough water to go around the neighbourhood, the water trucks limited each household to a maximum of three containers of water.
Homemaker Patricia Albert, 55, struggled throughout the week as she babysat some of her neighbours’ young children and this made it difficult to save any water.
Looking after a household of six when there was no water meant that laundry had to be completely neglected.
Her nearly empty water tank was reserved mostly for flushing the toilet while everyone had to shower using water saved in buckets.
The family had to reduce their showers to once a day, but she would still use up water very quickly when looking after her four neighbours’ children.
Syabas released a statement yesterday saying that water should be fully restored by 1am Wednesday to all areas affected by the contamination and shutdown of the Sungai Semenyih treatment plant.
The statement,said although the cause of the contamination had yet to be identified, preliminary tests found the facility free of hazardous substances.
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