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Except it isn't a "human" thing, it's an "american" thing.Before running water, washing up, bathing, and shitting happened in different places. Washing took place at a washstand in the bedroom, with a pitcher and a bowl; shitting happened in the outhouse or the chamber pot; bathing, when it occasionally happened, was often in a tub by the stove in the kitchen, where the hot water was. Nothing was fixed in one place (other than the outhouse) because nothing was connected to anything.