Agua no es yapa. ¡Cuidala!

Happy belated Earth Day blogstalkers! In the spirit of Earth Day, today's post has to do with water. Jer´s coined the phrase, "Agua no es yapa" for the Puyo water campaign. Outside, we have lot´s of water. It has been pouring nonstop for hours here in Puyo. Inside, we have no water. Our apartment has not had water for several days. I did get a short trickle coming out of the faucet this morning before it went out again. We have been filling a bucket at a spiggot near the street in order to take bucket baths, wash our dishes and throw water down the toilet. Speaking of toilets, we are going to be constructing some composting toilets this weekend. They don´t use water. Cuz flush toilets in the jungle generally just flow straight to the streams anyway. With the composting versions, the crap can break down and later be used to fertilize the chambira palm nurseries that we´ll also be constructing... well, provided it is not pouring down rain. So, there you have it, folks: the cycle of water.