This is a good one:
Been really worried about the stinking Cola coloured, bacteria and virus infected water that apparently comes out of the taps in Lagos (hey, there is no sewage system and the crap goes into the groundwater which comes out of the taps). Okay, to wash vegetables and fruit in the kitchen you use a bit of Miltons in it-I knew that and of course only bottled water to drink, brush teeth etc...
But what about showering? Am I supposed to wash in this filth?
Here's what you do (from an expat I met at the High Commission):
Take a 2 litre Coke bottle and cut off the bottom part.
Drill/poke 2 holes into the lower rim, opposite one another.
Attach a piece of string, ribbon or wire long enough to fit over the tap.
Cut out a square piece of preferably silk fabric (or cotton will do as well) which you tie around the nozzle/spout of the bottle on the other end.
Hang the thing over the tap, drop a few granules of HTH or similar into the bottle and run the water.
Hey presto-you have a rudimentary water sanitizer!
All the muck and some bacteria and viruses will be trapped in the bottle and the water will be reasonably clean.
Still no drinking though and your skin might get bleached if you decide to linger. Never mind what it will do to your hair. So, hairwashing will be done with bottled water in my case.
And perhaps, hope beyond hope, we will have a water purification plant at the compound?
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