"Seniors were carrying buckets. This is goddamn America, not Afghanistan," Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said.

A fired up Brooklyn borough president said Friday that he could not believe tenants at the Brevoort Houses went without regular running water for ten days.

Residents, many of them elderly, struggled to bring water to their apartments from a temporary water station outside.

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Alana Coston uses a cane and has a son with a disability. "He's wheelchair-bound. He goes to a day program so I had to come out here in the morning time to get water, go back upstairs, put it on the stove and boil it to wash him up and also put him on the bus at 6:45," Coston said.

900 apartments lost full water service July 16, when the pumping system could not be turned back on after New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) workers cleaned a rooftop water tank. Some moments, water would flow; other times it would not.

"5 o'clock in the morning," one resident said a press conference. "the water was on, I jumped in the shower, and before I got out the shower, the water was off."

"I just started a new job, I'm getting about my business. How am I supposed to be productive if I can't get up early in the morning be able to know that I'm guaranteed water to drink, water to wash myself with so I don't offend others?" another Brevoort Houses resident said. "How am I supposed to function every single day?"

Brooklyn elected officials accused the embattled housing authority of not being upfront with residents about the water outage and how long it would last.

"We have residents who are standing by spigots, trying to get water to their homes," Brooklyn City Councilwoman Alicka Ampry-Samuel said. "It sounds a lot like a developing country. But it's not only in the wealthiest country, but one of the wealthiest cities in America."

Full water service finally returned Thursday. In a statement, NYCHA said, "Our residents shouldn't have to deal with these unreliable services. We will continue to monitor the situation to ensure service improves."

Residents are keeping their fingers crossed that the water keeps flowing and they won't have to use the water station again. Some residents are keeping extra pots of waters to cook with, and buckets of water in the bathroom to flush the toilet, just in case.