Water Water Everywhere

The rains have come! Finally, its raining cats and dogs. Five weeks late! Five weeks! Five! Ah so, you might say, a few more weeks of sunny dry weather, how bad, you might think, it’s a bonus. You would be totally wrong there.
Here in Pune we have a few reservoirs in the hills around the city. These reservoirs fill up during monsoon, it doesn't rain in the rest of the year so all of our water supply for the year has to fall during monsoon. So when monsoon comes five weeks late and its a light monsoon, which this one is, there is not enough water for the year. The city already practices ‘load shedding’. A delightful term they use when at the busiest times of the day, they just cut the supply. (They do this with electricity too, which is mainly hydropower, very green, but crap when the rains don’t come.)
So the water is on for half an hour in the morning now. We have a water tower that fills up whenever there is enough supply, but its nearly empty, we had to get a tanker in last week to top it up and we emptied it the week before when we had forty guests. now we have another forty people on site and it looks like we will be washing hair in buckets of rainwater again.
You will never hear me complaining about a rainy day again.
My hair smells funny.