“We get a little dribble of water for one hour and then nothing for two,” said Aida Horne who lives in Panteg outside of Goodwick. “Last week we had a day or two when we had nothing in the day.
“I go to the gym every day so I have been showering there. I have to put my washing on at 9pm at night when we have some water, I fill up a jug to put in the fridge and we use bottled water too.
When the water comes through Aida has to fill up a jug for later. She is showering at the gym and running her washing machine late at night. (Image: Aida Horne)
“You can’t rely that you are going to have drinking water. We can’t plan anything that involves using water.”
Aida said that she has been told by Welsh Water that her house and the surrounding properties are at the ‘end of the line’, so when water demand is high, they get less water.
“It’s all of Panteg,” she said. “The farmers are struggling too. There is one farm with 200 cattle and he is having to bring water in for them.”
She said that the situation occurred most summers, but that in In previous years Welsh Water has supplied a water tank outside her property and also supplied large bottles of drinking water.
“This year Welsh Water has said that there are too many tanks in demand and so there are none available,” she said.
“We did ask if they could bring us bottles of drinking water but we were told that they have too many people dealing with the same situation and they don’t have any.”
Aida said that she and her husband were constantly calling Welsh Water.
Aida says that her house has has had hardly any water for at least four weeks. (Image: Aida Horne)
“We have been calling since the heat wave started,” she said. “My husband called them every single day last week. He spoke to someone different every day. Nobody can get to the root of the problem.”
To top it off, her husband has been told that they have been put on a special tariff that reflects the water supply problems.
“We never signed up for that,” she said. “We would rather pay and have water.”
“Fishguard and Scleddau have water, why don’t we have water?”
A Welsh Water spokesperson said: “We are aware of some supply issues in the area recently, due to unprecedented increase in demand during the extended heat waves.
“We would like to apologise to the customer for recent low pressure and intermittent supplies.
“Crews have been in the area working to resolve any issues over the past couple of weeks.
“A repair is being done on a burst main in the area today [Friday] and we will be back in coming days to continue with our work to improve the network.”