Cold Water

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Cold Water

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Cold dry season
***** Category: Earth / Humanity

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Explanation

Most Kenyans use cold water to wash themselves, to take a shower, to wash their clothes and dishes. Very few households have hot running water. This may be because they have no running water at all, or because the water runs only rarely in the taps, or because they have no hot water system.

Most of those Nairobi households which are connected to the mains pipes, receive running water only once a week on a particular weekday.
They then store the water in large plastic tanks and bring it into household use in buckets, basins and jerricans.

Those who wish to use hot water for washing themselves or their clothes or dishes have to heat it in a kettle or a sufuria. This becomes expensive and laborious, and is something of a luxury.

Using cold water means that the water temperature changes with the air temperature of the season. Water is therefore particularly cold in the morning during the cold dry season.

Isabelle Prondzynski.




Water tank on a roof





Water trickling into a basin





Washing hands before a meal





Washing the dishes at the Nursery School

All photos © Isabelle Prondzynski


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Worldwide use



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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

cold water--
I straighten myself very fast
in the bathroom

cold water --
I take too long standing
in the bathroom

cold water--
I wash my head and feet
in the bathroom

Barrack Elungata

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Related words

***** . WKD : Water in various Kigo .

hiyamizu uri 冷水売（ひやみずうり） vendor of cold water
kigo for all summer


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