Our last two times in SXM, we have stayed in Orient Village and had what I would call significant water outages - one lasting several days. The issue is not the drinking water. Bottled water is readily available. This issue is the toilet flushing water. We were lucky enough to be close to a pool so that we could use a pail to dip water out of the pool to flush the toilets... but I am not as young as I once was and it was not easy to do, especially in the middle of the night. Frankly, our last visit, the water situation was so stressful, we vowed never to stay anywhere without a cistern ever again.... which is why we are at a hotel for our upcoming stay.