What's worst? No water or no electricity?

We have power, water or cuts once in a while to work on the lines or when something happens. Not having water is the worst.I can deal without electricity, but I miss the computer, but not to be able to flush the toilet, wash my hands is really bad. The not washing hands properly really gets to me. Having to take the frozen bottles out of the freezer to defrost for drinking water is a real pain. My freezer is full of bottles of ice to take up unused space and cut my electric bill. I use a lot of water for drinking. 15 cats and 2 dogs drink a lot. My pets must always have a nice fresh bowl. Especially my dog, Yafa. She drinks about a gallon a day. When I got her she was just a cute little puppy. Little did I know she is really a camel in dogs clothing. LOL

I would say it would be worse to have no electricity. Water can be bought at the nearest convenient store or grocery store. If you know there is a storm coming water can be gathered in the bathtub to flush the toilets and in dishes and pots in the kitchen to use for cooking. Of course I have been in your situation before! I hope you got it taken care of. I now have water stocked up just in case of emergency.

There are times when we have had both these problems, either nio water or no electricity but it has been because the supply has been cut due to bad weather and not unpaid bills. It would depend on the time of the year we had no electricity because in the winter months we would fair much better than summer. For example we have a wood stove which means we can noy only cook but also warm the place up if we ahd no electricity. It also has a water jacket as part of it so we would have hot water as well and could at least shower. Of course there would be no television or computer or lights although we could cope with candles for lighting and of course we have a radio which opeated on batteries. We do have town water but also have our own rain water tanks as well as a huge storage tank for irrigating our farm crops. One of the rain water tanks is gravity fed, so we would have some water available for drinking at least. However we could not irrigate the farm as those tanks are run by pump, and no electricity would mean we would not water our fruit and vegetables. Also in the summer months it would mean our cool room would not operate with no electricity and we would have no way of cooling our home. Having thought it through, I want BOTH water and electricity. Guess that means paying the accounts on or before the due date and hopefully you will be able to do that in future totallyundecided.

That's a toughie. I've been able to use water but not let it drain at times.... that's no fun finding ways to get things done when the drains don't work properly. Wich in away is different than not having any water because you can't use it if you have no where to put the used water KWIM? I think I'd be fine w/o electricity. Except the food and cooking issues & I suppose also the water since our well pump works on electricity.

Hey totallyundecided. My vote goes to "electricity." There has been times where we didn't have neither so I can speak for both sides of the stick. The worse thing for me was going days without a bath or shower and not being able to drink water all the time. I love water and it is a vital necessity for us than electricity. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE my TV, stove,radio and etc., but we can live without it for sure. I have a thirst that needs quenching and a body that craves constant cleaning. Dirt piled up on my skin is yuck and disgusting. Just think about it, people long time ago didn't have "electricity" and they got along pretty well. But I'll tell ya what. They had access to good ol water. My point exactly.

I don't pay my electricity bills here because I am in a rented house & the house owner pays the bill. I just give the money to him, if I don't give him the meoney for the electricity bill then he will kick me out of the house, so its better to pay the amount rather being kicked out of the house & to wander in the streets right!! But in your case its completely weird, anything of this sort has not happened to me because I pay my bill on time

well some areas here in our place has no water if the electricity is out. i can say that i can take no electricity than no water. during typhoon seasons we ran out of electricity and we can live with that. but no water that would be painful. when there is no electricity you can not watch tv. but if there is no water you can not cook, bath or even wash after you go to the loo. that would be nasty lol. so i can say i can live maybe a day or two without electricity. regarding your situation, i always make sure i pay the bills. i have four children and when electricity goes out their studies will be affected. yes i know you learned your lessons already so make sure you pay even you dont feel wellor even you dont feel like paying it lol. wink wink wink

both is needed here because for one i heat by electricity and we need water to cook and clean.so we actually needs both of them.please keep up on your bill it,s freezing cold here and you don,t need to be in the cold this time of year.

I have been in both shapes a few times in my life, no power and no water, so I would have to say that I could go without power!! I HAVE to have water and be able to wash and flush. I can light a candle or cook outside on a grill.

Well both would be bad but considering this is winter in Minnesota it would be terrible to have no electricity! It's been bitter cold. But in the same breath....having no water for bathing would be bad too.....you can buy water to cook with or drink...but I need a shower in the morning!

Having no water would be the worst, no doubt! At least if we're talking being at home. Living without electric isn't that horrible if you can build a fire and aim at rabbits LOL I would have to change that if we were talking about the nation as a whole, for obvious reasons. The first reasons being all the people on life-support. We could always import water, though we'd probably pay triple the milk prices for it. Either way would be crappy, so this is a loaded question!! Yep... gotta pay the man

Both are important as they are neccisities for daily needs. However if I only have once choice as to which is more important, I'd rather have water. Lossing water is a great loss in our daily life and activity as we all need water in almost every move we make at home. We cannot cook w/o it; we can't take a bath, wash dishes and cleaning uses a lot of water too. Can you imagine how stinky would be the toilet and us w/o water? We can still make some traditional and improvised ways to furnish ourselves if we lost electricity but w/o water we cannot.

Why you had a doubt like this totallyundecided! If there is no water nothing can be produced dear. Why we are so curious to know each every planet that they have water first then oxygen. If we have water first then the rest will be there 100% sure. Now we are raeding NASA's research about mars they were given the report to availability of water on mars is possible. That means we are getting very near to our next home once they have confirmed that we can have spare to built our residence, so water is the most wanted material when compare it to electricity.

No electricity is absolutely WORSE!, but I am used to it, though. If you live at the part of the world I live in you will realize the effect of no electricity better. If lucky, we do have electricity for just 4 hours in a day(24hrs), and that's really "mind troubling". Let me tell you what it means not to have electricity for 20hrs a day. 1.) For me, I cant study because of the kind of course I'm studying (Software Engineering). I need my laptop to work and my battery can only last for like 1hrs minimum. 2.) Life looks so boring because yo can't watch T.V to know whats going on in other countries. 3.) You cant cook too much food because there's no refrigerator to keep it for it not to spoil. And lots more.... But we thank God for the Chinese that makes generating sets to generate electricity for us. Though they don't make quality products, we know they'll improve over the years. Jidson NIGERIA.

I guess it depends where you are. If you're living somewhere cold, I'd doubt that you'd rather have water than electricity. On the other hand, if you were in my area where it's really hot this time of the year, you'd rather have water so you could just drown yourself in cold water for a while. But yeah, you're right, utilities should be given top priority in bills payments because these are basic needs. Yes you could go on and on without electric, but you'd not have opportunity to do what makes life a little easier when there's electric around, like cooking, heating, internet, lights, etc. On the other hand, some may say that it's fine without water, but just imagine yourself not taking a bath for a long while, I doubt there's any comfort in that. Just imagine if you need to take a dump.. ewww... how much more going thirsty. So, there you go. Stop forgetting those. Or perhaps you should link your utility bills with your bank account so they could auto-debit it. So no more hassle on your part.

I live in NW Florida, and I was here for the aftermath of both Hurricanes Ivan and Dennis. I know how it is to live without electricity, and to have to boil the water you use. I can certainly say that it is much easier to live without electricity than without water. I can build a fire to cook and stuff, and I have flashlights that do not run on batteries and candles to provide light, but I would hate to have to go all the way down to the river to get water and bring it back here and boil it to use it every day...SO, as long as we have water, I can make do without electricity...

No electricity is definitely worse. Almost everything runs on electricity (including making the water run in some homes). Furnaces, air conditioners, refrigerators, ovens and stoves..etc would all be useless. (Unless you have a gas oven/stove...you can light those with a match if necessary.) Water, you could go buy several gallons from the store (or borrow the neighbor's hose ). With how dependent we are on electronic devices...lack of electricity is frustrating to say the least.

I would rather be without electricity. I need my water. Water is essential to live. We don't use much electricity anyway. My bill only runs about 40-60 a month anyway so I could do without I think.

I could live without water for a whle as there is always bottled stuff but electricity I need so if I had to choose it would have to have the water cut off.

No water is in my book definitely worse than no power. At one time, we had regular blackouts in our area due to system overloads and there are ways of getting around that. We boiled water when we had power, and kept it in a flask to make tea whenever we wanted to. We had candles handy. Of course, being without power permanently could be worse but then you could still adjust by switching to gas appliances. Being without running water would be the worst.