Every two days for the past month, Jessica Martinez and her husband Alfonso López have made the 6 ½-mile drive to an empty house in south Kansas City. This house, unlike theirs, has running water. There, they take showers and fill huge plastic garbage bins with drinkable water. They then load the bins into their car and drive the water home to their two daughters, ages 11 and 13. The Martinez family has dealt with this precarious reality since the end of April, when KC Water shut off service to their newly rented home in the Marlborough Heights neighborhood of Kansas City. “Why did they shut it off when I was (already) living here? That’s something I don’t understand,” Martinez told The Star. “It’s really sad. Sometimes my girls will say, mom, we want to have a normal life.” A month later, Martinez is still waiting for water — and for answers. Read the story at the link in our bio. 📸: wagsphoto #KansasCity #Utility #KCWater #LocalNews #KCMO