Motor On.Tap On

The location is perfect.A house which is spacious. 2 rooms, a kitchen, 2 bathrooms, 8 taps. they seem to be like museum pieces for the past 3 months. Let alone water, they dont even spew air out of them!!
This is the situation in our house in Tambaram where 3 [no connection to The N03!] of us are staying. One tank and 7 households. We stay in the 2 second floor of the building. A family occupies the first floor house and 5 smaller houses in the ground floor are occupied by 5 different tenants. . most of whom are uneducated and are ladies. [I always wonder at their ability to keep shouting and fighting @ the edge of their voice. Truly amazing].

Problem Description:
Regularly Irrregular [guess oxymorons and myself go hand in hand]water supply for 3 months now.
The problem is compounded when you find out that the other 6 households are getting the water in their taps and its only you who doesnt get it. Add to it, the owner not even addressing the problem but only waiting for his monthly fixed income from our end.
The irony is that the 5 houses have a single common tap and they get water and we have 8 of them, none of them doing their job !
On further analysis, we could make why we were not having water everytime the motor was switched on and others(specially the ground floor fellows) had it. Simple and effective strategy.
Motor on.Tap on !
On deeper analysis, the strategy is a very good one. The people are making use of simple science. The motor's outlet is simply redirected to the tap via the overhead tank [They would have wished for a direct connection..but unfortunately there is not one]. The OverHead tank is dry and whatever water is being pumped by the motor into it is immediately directed to the ground floor tap which is open.[you should also appreciate the use of principle of gravity here. Just brilliant ! I guess this is the reason people prefer to occupy ground floor houses!] . For them, the motor switch is like a TV remote. Whenever they need water, use it !

Ok..so with all the analysis done and conclusions drawn,I, with a hope of making them see light, go talk to them (with my limited Tamil knowledge) to ask them not to use their "Motor On,Tap On" strategy. I took pains to explain them for around half hour and finally they agreed to my suggestion of not opening the tap when the motor is switched on. Satisfied with my achievement and a sound sleep , i wake up the next morning..
Back to square One! Sab kiye pe paani [literally??!] pher diya.

Dejected, we started to think of a variety of solutions to solve this problem from which included shifting to a new place to teaching the ground floor people a lesson or two apart from science.. but finally thought, only one solution will hold good. And that's why, at this hour of the day, I am here awaiting to use the same strategy
Motor On.Tap On !! :-) Just hoping that i succeed !!!