The weather has been sunny or occasionally cloudy lately. I mean, we have little rain these days. Matsuyama city, my hometown, experienced a serious drought like ten years ago. The citizens had to survive on little water for a month in the summer of that year.
I'm going to write about the situation at that time. The municipal swimming pools and all school pools were closed. All sports gyms closed their pools and shortened their working hours. Matsuyama city is famous as the city of hot springs, but all the hot springs facilities were closed too. I couldn't wash my cars. The water for the plants in my garden was cut short. I went back and forth many times between my bathroom and my garden with a bucket of water to feed the remains of the bathwater to the plants. I had to use the restroom water for the plants. All the swimming beaches were closed to save the shower water. Authorities cut the water supply for each household for the most part of the day. You know, I put a big bucket in the restroom in my house for flushing the toilet. Anyway, I had a hard time during the drought.
It's rice planting season around my hometown. As you know, rice planting needs a lot of water. The water in the resorvoir will decrease this season. My hospital has its own water well that was drilled just after the heavy drought, but the underground water will decrease unless the rain comes. The surgery needs a lot of water. I'm afraid that a serious drought has come again.
You can see the status of every reservoir around my hometown:
http://www.river.or.jp/shikoku
(Vocabulary)
back and forth
前後に、あちこちへ［に］、行ったり来たり（して）、行きつ戻りつ、往復して
(KW:松山 大渇水)
Comments