The Water Service announces a delay in water distribution due to ocean drought

Under a perplexing umbrella, citizens question the contradictory announcement from the Water Service: no water due to oceanic drought.

In a strange bureaucratic twist, our city’s Water Service recently announced an interruption in local water distribution, attributing the delay to an oceanic drought. As thousands of citizens scratch their heads, trying to understand how the ocean – this vast paradise of salt water – could become dry, the Water Service remains unflappable in its decision.

“It’s a fairly simple issue, really,” declared Vern Equinox, director of the Water Service, at a press conference held under a steady drizzle. “Our water comes from the ocean. The ocean is dry. So, no water.” According to him, even if the ocean appears full of water to the naked eye, “it’s simply a bureaucratic mirage.”

The true paradox lies in the claim that the ocean is dry. In fact, our local ocean – the vast body of water we all know and love – continues to do what it has always done; that is to say, be an ocean. Yet, the Water Service, in a logic that only public services seem to possess, insists on declaring it dry.

“I don’t see where the problem is,” says a local citizen, Mrs. Pinceau, who was strolling on the beach with her umbrella open under a persistent drizzle. “It’s very simple: the ocean is full of water, I can see the waves from my window. But if the Water Service says it’s dry, then who am I to argue?”

In the end, as the absurdity of the situation continues to blur the boundaries between logic and nonsense, it seems we are all condemned to live in a world where the ocean can be both dry and overflowing with water. A Kafkaesque reality where the only way to navigate is to open your umbrella and hope for the best.