After Paw installed the running water from the crick, we don't have to do that anymore when we take a shower. Just an FYI.
My husband's mother lives waaaaaay off the beaten path, breasts the creek three or four times to get to the board & batten cabin in the woods down in their holler. Their runnin water from the spring. It is piped in by capturing the water from a spring high on one high hill, allowing the gravity to run the water into the sink in the house, and then it is piped right out into the crick that runs by - gosh can't be 25 feet away. So we always tease her that she has hot and cold running water. Hot in summer and Cold in winter.
Actually, it is never hot. So showers are tempered by filling a 5 gal pail with hot water and you let the shower water from the spring run into the pail and you scoop water over yourself. Interestingly enough, it works just great. And if you are ever silly enough to visit her in the summer (Lawrence County TN) you bathe in the creek. The only way you can cool down. They don't have electricity, so there is no air conditioning.