It has been such a dry, hot summer here on the island. Our grass is parched and ugly looking. We are lucky to have our own well and not have to rely on water cisterns. We are watching our water use and keeping it to a minimum so as not to stress the well.
Some properties on this island do not have wells and rely strictly on rain. Water cisterns are tanks that are filled through out the year with rain water which is collected off of the house roofs. On this island the tanks sit above the ground. It would be to hard to bury them in the ground because of the rock formation. They do not need to worry about the tanks freezing in the winter here.
There has been little rain this spring and the water tanks are getting very low. There has been some water delivered by truck into the tanks this summer because of the lack of rain. Talk in the village centers around the lack of water.
Watering my flowers and shrubs has become a daily devotion and the plants have held up well. The locals tell us that once it starts raining in September/October everything will come back again. This happens every year, but this year it is exceptionally dry.
Who would have thought that you could be surrounded by water and still have a drought??
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