“We have no water here.”

“We have no water here.”

Tincuța Ciobanu, local, Letea, Danube Delta

We need water, drinking water, we don’t have water here. See how we beg from one, from another. We pay, we give 10-15 lei for a can of water to bring us. We don’t have water, that’s it. We don’t have water in the village. People wanted it. Pipes were laid halfway, from halfway there they didn’t lay anything. They went away, they evaporated.
From the well, right next to the forest. There’s a good well there and there’s another one at Belcheni, as they call it, it’s still good water. Either from there, or right there, from the forest. And it’s sand. You go by horse, cart, I don’t know if you can go by car because there’s a lot of sand there. They bring me 2-3 cans with the cart. I’ll have water for a week or two. I give another 30-40 lei, and he brings me 2-3 cans. There is nothing I can do, there is no other place. I can’t drink from the well, because it’s muddy, it’s salty. I can’t drink from the canal, because it’s muddy. We can bring water from there for washing, when you need to give it to a cow. You can wash dishes with that water. But it’s not good for drinking, you can’t because it smells like mud. And now it’s cloudy, it’s very cloudy, and I can’t even wash the laundry, because it’s turning black, especially the white ones. What do I do? Put them in the mud?