First of all, if you ask for agua, you will get a soda...there is no place too distant for a Coke or Pepsi truck to conquer. For the past three trips I have been drinking water from a clay Ecofiltro which is far more affordable and ecological than the previous alternative of plastic bottles of Aqua Pura.
Water is such a predominant issue. In the higher villages of T'umiche and Papal, women must spent 3 - 4 hours a day fetching water from down the mountain and then carting it up. This is part of why the cisterns are so vital. During the rainy season now (from May through October), the cisterns need to capture enough rain to last through the six-month dry season. Given the seasonal humidity, we needed about 3 - 4 days for our clothes to dry.
In Casaca, there is municipal water piped into people's homes.
In Antigua, where anything & everything lovely can be had, we were gifted with this rainbow.
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