There's a water cut in Garden City that lasted three days this week. The government says it was maintenance on the main line, and maybe it was, but they announced it on a Tuesday evening for a Wednesday morning, which gives you enough time to fill bathtubs if you already know about it. My neighbor, who works at the ministry, didn't know. I filled mine at midnight when I saw the notice on a WhatsApp group. The irony is not lost on me — we fought for information transparency in 2011, and now we get it through neighborhood chats and whispered tips. My wife was pregnant during a heat wave two years ago and we had no water for a day. This time I made sure we had reserves. You learn to plan around absence instead of presence, and after a while you stop calling it planning and just call it life.
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