and that's my final answer

I know I have been over this before, but is it really so much to ask for both the water and the electricity to work at the same time? Last night I reached the conclusion that if I have to choose between the two, I would rather have running water - and not just because that's what wasn't working at the time. At least on work days, cuando hay agua pero no hay luz, you can't really tell what part of my shirt is wet from my still-dripping hair (let's not get too crazy and think it gets blow-dried when there is luz, though) or from my own sweat, and voila, both freeze and evaporate in the AC within a few minutes of arriving at the office. And I don't smell and my hair is remotely clean. And you can't really cook when there is no water to wash the dishes with - we're all well aware of what creatures will come foraging for leftover crumbs... to say nothing of other hygiene issues.

However, I do feel a little like a movie star when I wash my face with purified water - just splashing a little bit of the precious drinking water on my face from the cup I'm drinking from. To think people use entire bottles of Evian every day...