BUSINESSES HIT
Taps ran dry at neighbouring Block 325, with some stalls at the coffee shop operating without water for most of Monday.
Block 325 houses several businesses, including two coffee shops, a hair salon, a clinic and a provision store.
Mr Ma Jian Jun, who runs a noodle stall at Block 325, confirmed that their water supply had been cut off since Monday morning. When he arrived at 6am, he was told to use the water supplied by the PUB trucks.
He was also given a notice, seen by CNA, that said PUB would be carrying out pipeline operations and that the water supply would be disrupted between 11.30pm on Sunday to 5pm on Monday.
Mr Ma has been collecting water in buckets to rinse his cooking utensils since Monday morning.
He decided to serve his customers with disposable plastic containers for today, rather than continuously collect water to wash the dishes.
He also turned down takeaway orders, since he usually needs to rinse the noodles with cold water before packing them up.
“There’s no water from the tap today, so I can’t rinse the noodles with water, they’ll get sticky. So I told them I won’t be doing takeaways today,” he said in Mandarin, adding that business has definitely been affected as a result.
“But I can understand, there’s nothing we can do since it’s a burst pipe. It’s not like it was someone’s fault.”
