KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Dozens of Osceola County residents are having to bathe in wet wipes and fill their toilets with buckets to go to the bathroom.
The residents of Bermuda Mobile Home Park in Kissimmee said their landlord isn’t doing anything to fix the problem.
The well they’ve been using for decades has stopped working, so residents have resorted to transporting water from an old laundry building back to the neighborhood.
People were seen lining up outside the building with empty buckets.
"So far, nothing's been done," said resident Alex Torres. "I guess it shouldn't be that way."
Residents were told the pump that supplied them with well water gave out last week.
“It’s just been word-of-mouth that people have been spreading that it may be week, two weeks to get fixed,” Torres said.
Channel 9’’s Field Sutton spoke to the manager of the mobile home park, who said she doesn’t know when things will be fixed and that she has no permission to buy and hand out bottles water for tenants.
Field’s other calls to the property management company have gone unreturned.
“She never came here to say nothing. She just was in her house waiting, because she has water,” said resident Stephanie Rivera.
Residents said the manager’s home is hooked up to city water.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is trying to expedite permits to get a new well dug.
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