Due to rollin­g outage­s driven by a dearth of rain and inadeq­uate infras­tructu­reMANILA: Manila has been hit by its worst water shortage in years, leaving bucket-bearing families to wait hours to fill up from tanker trucks and some hospitals to turn away less urgent cases. “I have learned to take a bath using only seven pitchers of water,” Ricardo Bergado told AFP as he lined up with his buckets. “I even save the bath water to flush our toilet.”The shortages started hitting late last week, with some areas in eastern Manila seeing the supplies of water into their homes being completely cut off. “This is the worst (water shortage) we have experienced. It almost happened last year but we were saved by heavy rains brought by storms,” Dittie Galang, Manila Water communications manager, told AFP.

Source: The Express Tribune March 15, 2019 10:30 UTC