“There will not be many job choices for somebody like me. I needed to drop out of faculty once I was 14 after my father died and needed to decide up odd jobs to feed my household. I do that work out of compulsion.
“This isn’t a simple job. It is vitally tough driving such a heavy tanker truck. A little bit of tough driving or a stretch of unhealthy highway might lead to a breakdown, which occurs pretty usually. Then I’ve to spend hours or days fixing it.
“There are occasions when I’ve to sleep in a single day within the truck as a result of it has damaged down someplace with no instant entry to repairs.
“The warmth doesn’t assist. It might probably get insufferable, particularly driving round with a scorching engine below the seat and scorching air blowing by way of the home windows. Nowadays the warmth and added humidity suck the power out of me.
“However I’m fortunate to have easy accessibility to water because of my job. Not all people has that luxurious, together with my household.
“I dwell in a slum. My home doesn’t get a daily provide of water. We get water each different day and that too for about an hour. We attempt to top off as a lot as we are able to and use the water as judiciously as potential.
“Throughout these scorching days, my youngsters and spouse bathe twice a day. We should not have any air-con, so that’s the solely respite they get from the warmth.
“I normally take a shower on the filling station on the finish of the day. If there may be even somewhat water left in my tanker, I exploit that. I’ve not bathed at residence in years.
“I don’t even carry a water bottle with me. Every time I really feel thirsty, I simply have it from the tanker.
“I might simply take the tanker to my home, however all of the vans are fitted with GPS trackers. If any of us (drivers) veer from our typical routes, we are able to get into hassle.
“Once I drive into the tight alleys of slums and villages, I can see folks’s faces gentle up. They’re so completely happy to see me. I serve at the very least 300 folks every single day.
“Rather a lot them have grow to be my associates through the years. They know if I’m there, they may get water for his or her day’s wants.
“That’s the reason it frustrates me once I see folks losing water. There are occasions when folks throw away completely good water to get “new water” from the tanker.
“There are occasions when folks go away the tanker’s valve open or go away their pipes operating, resulting in a lot wastage. That’s the solely time I get upset and yell at them.
“Folks have to grasp the worth of water. Water is life. Yearly the disaster will get worse.
“I usually fear about my ladies and surprise if they may have even this a lot water obtainable to them once they develop up.”
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