Drinking Water

آب خوردن

[ آب آشاميدني ]

در آن زمان آب آشاميدني در ايران بخصوص از نوع تصفيه شده کمياب بود. در سال ۱۳۲۸ شمسی كه من ده ساله بودم ، آب لوله كشي در شيراز راه اندازي شد. قبل از آن آب را درون بشكه هايي برروي چهارپايان بدرب منازل ميبردند. البته اشخاص مرفّه در منزل چاه آب داشتند كه ازآن برای آشامیدن و پرکردن حوضها استفاده مي كردند.

همچنین خانونواده های مرفّه نوشابه هاي وارداتي مثل كوكاكولا رامصرف میکردند که بعدها بصورت تجارت بزرگی در آمد.

البتّه خانواده هاي کم درآمد آب آشاميدني را از جاهايي كه شير آب وجود داشت درون كوزه و یا دولچه (کیسه چرمی) به منزل برده و نگهداري ميكردند.

بهر حال در آن زمان ،آب آشامیدنی چندان خالص نبود و باعث بروز بسياري بيماري هاي پوستي بخصوص سالك ميشد كه درماني نداشت و پس از مدتها كه بهبود مي یافت جاي ناخوشايندی بر روي پوست باقي ميگذاشت.

Drinking Water

[ Abeh Khordan ]

Water, especially good drinking water, is a scarce commodity in Iran. I was about 10 years old (around 1949) when Shiraz became the first city with a municipal water system. Before then, spring water was brought to us in giant leather sacs, carried into the city on the back of mules. That water went to the middle class families. The rich had their own private wells, from which the servants filled covered pools, and from which drinking water was drawn.

And the comfortable could also afford to drink carbonated soft drinks such as Coca Cola, which became a big business not long after it arrived in Iran.

The lower class got their drinking water from a public water house. The used different water containers such as a kouzeh (a ceramic container), a doulcheh (a leather bag), or a deeg (a crop container).

However the water in Shiraz was not pure and ninety-nine percent of the children suffered from aleppo boil, a kind of skin disease contracted from contaminated water. There was no cure for aleppo boil at that time. We suffered from it for a long time and when it was finally eradicated, we were still left with ugly skin scars.