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Isla Guapa
Joined: 19 Apr 2010
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Location: Mexico City o sea La Gran Manzana Mexicana
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| EFLeducator wrote: |
| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| Water pressure in Mexico City is low.... |
 To say the least! It can take 30 minutes to take a shower and wash your hair due to the low pressure in Mexico City. Also, the toilets takes 3 to 5 minutes to complete the flush cycle.  |
Oh hell no, you surely must be underestimating here. It's at least 60 minutes for a shower and all toilets take all day to refill. No exceptions. |
Wow, Guy, things are much better in your colonia than in mine. I can take a shower only twice a week, and the hot water lasts just five minutes. And I only flush the toilet once a day! 
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Phil_K
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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Location: A World of my Own
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Isla Guapa wrote: |
| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| EFLeducator wrote: |
| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| Water pressure in Mexico City is low.... |
To say the least! It can take 30 minutes to take a shower and wash your hair due to the low pressure in Mexico City. Also, the toilets takes 3 to 5 minutes to complete the flush cycle. |
Oh hell no, you surely must be underestimating here. It's at least 60 minutes for a shower and all toilets take all day to refill. No exceptions. |
Wow, Guy, things are much better in your colonia than in mine. I can take a shower only twice a week, and the hot water lasts just five minutes. And I only flush the toilet once a day! |
Water? What's that? |
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notamiss
Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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Location: El 5o pino del la CDMX
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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 we are right at the edge next to the mountains, where the water comes into the Valley of Mexico and our pressure is often too high. We don�t have a pump, and the roof tanks keep full. |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Phil_K wrote: |
| Isla Guapa wrote: |
| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| EFLeducator wrote: |
| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| Water pressure in Mexico City is low.... |
To say the least! It can take 30 minutes to take a shower and wash your hair due to the low pressure in Mexico City. Also, the toilets takes 3 to 5 minutes to complete the flush cycle. |
Oh hell no, you surely must be underestimating here. It's at least 60 minutes for a shower and all toilets take all day to refill. No exceptions. |
Wow, Guy, things are much better in your colonia than in mine. I can take a shower only twice a week, and the hot water lasts just five minutes. And I only flush the toilet once a day! |
Water? What's that? |
Ignore it...it's merely an invention of the elite liberal media.
Ok, I'm done having fun...sorry for the aside.
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| we are right at the edge next to the mountains, where the water comes into the Valley of Mexico and our pressure is often too high. We don�t have a pump, and the roof tanks keep full. |
Friends of ours live up in the Lomas area and have one of the feeder pipes running just behind their house and have the same abundance...I'm jealous. Strangely though, you can live in another part of Lomas and have chronic water issues.
I have a 145 litre bathtub for the kids and can fill the thing in about 5 minutes...not too bad in our building. |
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Phil_K
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, Guy, things are much better in your colonia than in mine. I can take a shower only twice a week, and the hot water lasts just five minutes. And I only flush the toilet once a day! Wink
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What was that about unnecessary sarcasm, Isla? Some people DO have a real problem with water, and that's pretty dangerous, too!
Ok, as Guy says, fun over, handshakes all round, eh? |
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Isla Guapa
Joined: 19 Apr 2010
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Location: Mexico City o sea La Gran Manzana Mexicana
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, Guy, things are much better in your colonia than in mine. I can take a shower only twice a week, and the hot water lasts just five minutes. And I only flush the toilet once a day! Wink
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What was that about unnecessary sarcasm, Isla? Some people DO have a real problem with water, and that's pretty dangerous, too!
Ok, as Guy says, fun over, handshakes all round, eh? |
I do have problems with water from time to time. That's why I felt entitled to make jokes about it . |
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boomerexpat
Joined: 15 Apr 2012
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Location: Mexico
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I seemed to have touched a nerve when I brought up the subject of water. |
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MotherF
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| I seemed to have touched a nerve when I brought up the subject of water. |
That's a nerve that will be touched over and over again over the next 20 years so we all better get used to it! (and start using water wisely.) |
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Isla Guapa
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Location: Mexico City o sea La Gran Manzana Mexicana
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| MotherF wrote: |
| boomerexpat wrote: |
| I seemed to have touched a nerve when I brought up the subject of water. |
That's a nerve that will be touched over and over again over the next 20 years so we all better get used to it! (and start using water wisely.) |
That's right, MotherF. You never really appreciate water till you don't have any for a few days. Boy, have I become a much wiser user of water since moving to Mexico, not to mention a big fan of Tlaloc! |
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canada_1986
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Location: Canada
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I've been in Mexico City since January and I haven't had any major problems with the pollution. The biggest problem I find is the intense, putrid smell of raw sewage, which for some reason seems to be the worst in the early morning.
As for water, I've been very lucky. I live in a building that not only has a pump and rooftop tanks, but each apartment unit has its own hot water heater. I can take half-hour showers with more hot water than I ever had at my parents' house in Canada. And it doesn't cost me a centavo extra. The water pressure is always great. I've never had a toilet problem either.
It helps living in a building that was completed in 2012. |
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boomerexpat
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:40 am Post subject: |
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I've been in Mexico City since January and I haven't had any major problems with the pollution. The biggest problem I find is the intense, putrid smell of raw sewage, which for some reason seems to be the worst in the early morning.
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Sewage in the morning is probably better, I guess, than napalm. Do you smell it in the air wherever you go or is it localized to select sewer vents? In Bangkok you get a reg dose as you walk by the little sewer vents about every 100 meters or so. |
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canada_1986
Joined: 23 Nov 2011
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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I've been in Mexico City since January and I haven't had any major problems with the pollution. The biggest problem I find is the intense, putrid smell of raw sewage, which for some reason seems to be the worst in the early morning.
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Sewage in the morning is probably better, I guess, than napalm. Do you smell it in the air wherever you go or is it localized to select sewer vents? In Bangkok you get a reg dose as you walk by the little sewer vents about every 100 meters or so. |
The smell is everywhere in my colonia, although it is most intense at the river just south of the colonia. There's also a sewer vent near my institute that is awful in the morning. |
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boomerexpat
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:42 am Post subject: |
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The smell is everywhere in my colonia, although it is most intense at the river just south of the colonia. There's also a sewer vent near my institute that is awful in the morning. |
not fun. which colonia do you live in? I'll try and avoid that one. |
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Isla Guapa
Joined: 19 Apr 2010
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Location: Mexico City o sea La Gran Manzana Mexicana
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 3:44 am Post subject: |
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The smell is everywhere in my colonia, although it is most intense at the river just south of the colonia. There's also a sewer vent near my institute that is awful in the morning. |
not fun. which colonia do you live in? I'll try and avoid that one. |
I was thinking the same thing . Maybe canada_1986 should consider moving to a sweeter-smelling neighborhood. |
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boomerexpat
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| Isla Guapa wrote: |
I was thinking the same thing . Maybe canada_1986 should consider moving to a sweeter-smelling neighborhood. |
Or, walk around, like the French used to do, with a handkerchief soaked in perfume. |
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