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No water in Ankara!
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07 Aug 2007 Tue 09:29 pm |
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Oops !
Sorry AENIGMA....
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| 21. |
07 Aug 2007 Tue 09:33 pm |
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Ewww...I'm in California now and we have had quite a few water shortages, but not this bad. At least we have had drinking water....so far. It's very unpleasant indeed. We are told to store extra water for emergencies. Do you do that in Turkey? Of course, storing enough gets to be a problem. I've got quite a bit stored...but taking showers not be very much fun.
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well, people living in Ankara prefer not to drink the tap water. They rather get their drinking water from private companies which are specialized to commercialize spring water in 20L (~5.5 Gallons) plastic containers. It is cheap as well. It costs around 5 YTL (~ $3.5 USD) and it lasts about one week for a 4-member family. As far as water storage for taking showers, doing the dishes, etc. is concerned, people living in apartments are luckier than those living in their private houses such as in "Gecekondu"s, because larger buildings have their own water storage places that can store enough water for the apartment residents for 3-5 days during the water shortages.. Luckily we have not had any water shortages for more than 2 days so far. We get the water shortages every two days in different parts of Ankara and it lasts only two days untill we get the next water shortage.
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07 Aug 2007 Tue 09:41 pm |
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Quoting AlphaF: No,no...please !
Three under the shower will be too crowded !  |
Hey !?? Who has just gotten my soap??
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07 Aug 2007 Tue 09:42 pm |
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Quoting jenk: Quoting AlphaF: No,no...please !
Three under the shower will be too crowded ! |
Hey !?? Who has just gotten my soap?? |
Its on the floor! Are you going to bend down and get it with Alpha stood so close? 
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07 Aug 2007 Tue 09:45 pm |
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Quoting AEnigma III: Quoting jenk: Quoting AlphaF: No,no...please !
Three under the shower will be too crowded ! |
Hey !?? Who has just gotten my soap?? |
Its on the floor! Are you going to bend down and get it with Alpha stood so close? |
Opps I didn't know that. I am getting outta here..I gotta save myself first and find myself another bathroom to finish my shower.
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07 Aug 2007 Tue 09:52 pm |
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Quoting jenk: Quoting AEnigma III: Quoting jenk: Quoting AlphaF: No,no...please !
Three under the shower will be too crowded ! |
Hey !?? Who has just gotten my soap?? |
Its on the floor! Are you going to bend down and get it with Alpha stood so close? |
Opps I didn't know that. I am getting outta here..I gotta save myself first and find myself another bathroom to finish my shower. |
Ok. I'll leave you guys alone. You guys do whatever you wanna do in the shower Just don't you dare touching me.. I am outta here.. Oh God! I don wanna save water anymore..I just wanna have my safer bathroom..
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07 Aug 2007 Tue 10:22 pm |
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well, people living in Ankara prefer not to drink the tap water. They rather get their drinking water from private companies which are specialized to commercialize spring water in 20L (~5.5 Gallons) plastic containers. It is cheap as well. It costs around 5 YTL (~ $3.5 USD) and it lasts about one week for a 4-member family. As far as water storage for taking showers, doing the dishes, etc. is concerned, people living in apartments are luckier than those living in their private houses such as in "Gecekondu"s, because larger buildings have their own water storage places that can store enough water for the apartment residents for 3-5 days during the water shortages.. Luckily we have not had any water shortages for more than 2 days so far. We get the water shortages every two days in different parts of Ankara and it lasts only two days untill we get the next water shortage.
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Is the water that bad you can't boil it and drink it? Can you use a water filter to purify it? If you wash your veggies in the water and then eat a salad, it's not much different than drinking the tap water as it gets into your system. Taking showers, washing hair, brushing your teeth, you get the water in your system anyway through your pores. How do you deal with that?
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07 Aug 2007 Tue 10:35 pm |
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I can't answer for Ankara - I will leave it to one of the 6 million citizens of the capital to speak for themselves.
But in Istanbul, drinking the water won't kill you .. you just get an awful taste from the chemicals they put in to kill the bugs, or from the rusty pipes the water has run down to come to you.
You can always tell from the taste if someone has made tea with tap water - a Turk would never do it, but sometimes a foreigner does. YUK!
If you want to drink water from the tap go to Izmit, there Thames Water (London's water company), runs the water supply and for me it's just like being back home
Maybe as a Turkish Class we should all do a rain dance tonight to try to bring water to Ankara. Let's synchronise watches....
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07 Aug 2007 Tue 10:35 pm |
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His main point was that the bottled water is cheap, so why not drink good tasting water. I'm paying 7 YTL for 20 liter bottle. The water in the taps, its OK for brushing teeth, etc. But it is full of chlorine and particles, so for drinking, its just not as good. It doesnt leave a taste on the vegetables you clean, but I never use it to make cay or coffee.
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07 Aug 2007 Tue 10:37 pm |
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Quoting MarioninTurkey: Maybe as a Turkish Class we should all do a rain dance tonight |
NO NO! We may bring the wrong RAIN!  
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07 Aug 2007 Tue 10:48 pm |
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Is there a 'rain dance' joke in Ankara HAVAsi (maybe not).
I drank the water at my fiance's house in Ankara with no problem, not on purpose, I just forgot and did it. It tasted a lot like water in Pueblo, Colorado,(not good)but it did not make me ill. I have never gotten ill from the water in Turkey brushing my teeth, ice, etc... and I have been all over Istanbul, Ankara, Central Anatolia down the western coast, along the southern coast. In Egypt I was ill the whole 2 weeks.
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