No doubt. My grandma lived in her home until 1985 and never had running water. My parents lived next door but she hated their “city water” and even though she had a well, it was too alkaline to drink, so she trucked barrels of water, thirty miles from her cousins farm and kept a jug in the “icebox” and a redwing fifty gallon crock in the living room. She often melted snow on her wood and coal burning cookstove for cleaning.
