{"id":353,"date":"2003-07-17T22:14:39","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T22:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/07\/water_water_eve\/"},"modified":"2003-07-17T22:14:39","modified_gmt":"2003-07-17T22:14:39","slug":"water_water_eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/water_water_eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Water Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icg.harvard.edu\/~hsci278\/Readings_on_Imagination\/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner.htm\">Nor Any Drop To Drink<\/a> (<i>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>, Samuel Taylor Coleridge).<br \/>\nI got back today to find that I had no water. But not only me &#8211; everyone in this part of Enfield is suffering. I was told this by the guy in the Co-op, although he seemed quite keen to sell me bottled water.<br \/>\nOn my way to the flat, I saw a kid on his bike with a box. A closer examination showed it to be a Thames Water box of water (similar to a very large winebox).<br \/>\nI had a bit of a scout around but couldn&#8217;t find any distribution lorries, and there was no card in my door.<br \/>\nI had a look on the Thames Water <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thames-water.com\/TW\/division\/en_gb\/content\">website<\/a> which in turn lead me to the Thames Water <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thameswateruk.co.uk\/\">UK site<\/a>, and then on to Newwave online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newwaveonline.co.uk\/\">site<\/a>.<br \/>\nNone of these sites were especially dynamic, and there was absolutely no mention of a major North London outage anywhere, because press release section aside, there was no area set up for it. In other words I pretty much have to phone their customer service line to learn more. I didn&#8217;t bother, thinking that holding on for a long period to learn that they&#8217;re working as fast as possible seemed pretty pointless.<br \/>\nThere were no news sites which helped &#8211; no local Enfield news. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/london\/news\/\">BBC London<\/a> site just had news of an outage somewhere else yesterday. So how do I get emergency supplies? At least I have my free half-litre of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highlandspring.com\/\">Highland Spring<\/a>, that they were handing out on the tube earlier this week, so I won&#8217;t die of thirst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nor Any Drop To Drink (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge). I got back today to find that I had no water. But not only me &#8211; everyone in this part of Enfield is suffering. I was told this by the guy in the Co-op, although he seemed quite keen to sell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}