Toilet Training

(September 3, 2009) As our British Airways flight from London climbed to cruising altitude on the way to Prague, head flight attendant announced that drink service would begin once the captain turned off the seatbelt sign.  A few minutes later, he announced that there was a problem with the fresh water system on the aircraft preventing the cabin crew from brewing coffee and tea. Water supply to the plane's lavatories was also cut off.  I had been nodding off and thought that the purser said "Toilets cannot be flushed normally, so we will be providing buckets of water to be used for that purpose."  Actually, the toilets could be flushed as per usual (to borrow a phrase from the British), but sink faucets would not operate so bottles of water would be placed in the lavatories so passengers could wash their hands.