A typhoon passed by and no water. Ogasawara is going through serious water problems and rain is not showing its face. Everyday in the morning they announce through the town megaphones the amount of water left in the dam and it has been going down a percentage per day. We hit 36% yesterday, meaning that if it did not rain we would only have water for 36 more days! Fortunately yesterday it rained all night and now we are back to 46% woo hoo. Honestly when it comes to this stage everyone has to do their best not to waste any water. I think we have been more conscious of the way we wash our dishes and brush our teeth. Our toilet is a compost toilet so we don't use any water to flush and the water in the shower goes directly into a banana field. They calculated that every person uses 300 liters per day out of which 30 liters go on flushing the toilet! What a waste of water. I think situations like this make you appreciate the preciousness of water and other things you have in life that you take for granted.
Good job on preserving water! I grew up with composting toilets and washing off in a bucket. We had to hand pump water so it was no fun to use more than 4-5 liters per day, especially when you are 5 years old and trying to get that cranky pump to work! I assume all the islanders have personal rain barrels and cisterns to collect rain water?
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