Dear Editor,
National Water Commission is causing the gastro epidemic. Since the drought started and the country have been having water lock-offs, whether scheduled or otherwise, the quality of the water when it returns is not fit for drinking.
I got gastro twice in a month and I do not live in Kingston 11 or 13, I live in Kingston 6. So I guess because I can afford to see a private doctor I am not among your statistics.
I love water, so I drink water throughout the day, sometimes directly from the tap. Well, when the water lock-offs started, I went home one evening, turned on the pipe and held a cup (coloured) under the pipe. I caoght some water and drank it. I went to the bathroom to shower, when I turn on the pipe and looked down I saw muddy dirty water. I screamed and wanted to vomit after realising that I just consumed this same water. Maybe if I had drunk the water from a glass I would have seen the state of the water, but when it hit the white tub in my bathroom that is when I saw it. That same night the bellyache started, by morning I was on my bathroom floor vomiting then diarrhoea. When I went to the doctor, he advised that I had contracted the gastro virus. I had to stay home for a week.
Since then, I have learned my lesson, so I pour water into a glass and wait to see the colour before drinking or boil the water before drinking. However, two weeks after my first incident, I made Sunday dinner for my family and made juice. I turned on the pipe and caught the water in a glass pitcher and waited then I made my juice. At the dinner table my son asked me how the juice tasted so funny and smelled as well, so I drank the juice for myself to find out what he meant. The juice had a funny taste and smelled of 'chemical'. I turned on the pipe and smelled and sipped the water, it was the same smell and taste as the juice. The following day we were all sick. We went to the doctor who confirmed that we all had gastro.
Needless to say I have now resorted to bottled water as I do not trust NWC water anymore. So it is not water stored that is making the people of Kingston 11 and 13 sick, but people from all areas are getting sick from the water that is coming from the tap.
Leroy Brown
leroybrownman@gmail.com
NWC causing gastro
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National Water Commission is causing the gastro epidemic. Since the drought started and the country have been having water lock-offs, whether scheduled or otherwise, the quality of the water when it returns is not fit for drinking.
I got gastro twice in a month and I do not live in Kingston 11 or 13, I live in Kingston 6. So I guess because I can afford to see a private doctor I am not among your statistics.
I love water, so I drink water throughout the day, sometimes directly from the tap. Well, when the water lock-offs started, I went home one evening, turned on the pipe and held a cup (coloured) under the pipe. I caoght some water and drank it. I went to the bathroom to shower, when I turn on the pipe and looked down I saw muddy dirty water. I screamed and wanted to vomit after realising that I just consumed this same water. Maybe if I had drunk the water from a glass I would have seen the state of the water, but when it hit the white tub in my bathroom that is when I saw it. That same night the bellyache started, by morning I was on my bathroom floor vomiting then diarrhoea. When I went to the doctor, he advised that I had contracted the gastro virus. I had to stay home for a week.
Since then, I have learned my lesson, so I pour water into a glass and wait to see the colour before drinking or boil the water before drinking. However, two weeks after my first incident, I made Sunday dinner for my family and made juice. I turned on the pipe and caught the water in a glass pitcher and waited then I made my juice. At the dinner table my son asked me how the juice tasted so funny and smelled as well, so I drank the juice for myself to find out what he meant. The juice had a funny taste and smelled of 'chemical'. I turned on the pipe and smelled and sipped the water, it was the same smell and taste as the juice. The following day we were all sick. We went to the doctor who confirmed that we all had gastro.
Needless to say I have now resorted to bottled water as I do not trust NWC water anymore. So it is not water stored that is making the people of Kingston 11 and 13 sick, but people from all areas are getting sick from the water that is coming from the tap.
Leroy Brown
leroybrownman@gmail.com
NWC causing gastro
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