Citations:running water

examples concerning places with running rivers but not "running water"

 * 1996, Reggie McLeod, Big River Reader: An Anthology of Stories About Upper Mississippi from the First Four Years, Bookmen (ISBN 9780965395014):
 * Nearly all island residents, including myself, live without running water, despite the river that flows beneath us. However, some areas of the island do have electrical and telephone service.
 * 2007, Ruth Fredman Cernea, Almost Englishmen: Baghdadi Jews in British Burma, Lexington Books (ISBN 9780739116470):
 * Rachel Lazin recalls: 'I remembered how, during our early years in Israel—living in an abandoned Arab house near the banks of the Yarkon River, without running water or electricity— my parents had longed for the comfortable lives they had ...
 * 2007, Ian Jeffries, China: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments, Routledge (ISBN 9781134177622):
 * a sulphur leak forced communities along the river to go without running water for two days.

examples where people walk to rivers because they lack running water at home

 * 2003, Carolyn Black, Pakistan: The People, Crabtree Publishing Company (ISBN 9780778793472), page 18:
 * In village homes without running water, women walk to rivers or public taps to collect water for drinking, cooking, and bathing.

other citations

 * 2008 March 31, Arthur Miller, "Black Rock Boondoggle" (e-mail), published in Yakima River Basin Water Storage Feasibility Study: Environmental Impact Statement, volume 2, page 243:
 * I was born within a stone's throw of the Roza Project boundary in a farm house without running water (1936).