we washed our clothes at these taps and some of the younger children even bathed there. Sometime.we would take our dirty plates pails of water back for our bath at night. This means that we could not bathe with hot water. my mother said.
The water from the taps was also not as clean as they are now . We could not drink from them whenever we wanted to. We had to make sure that the water was boiled before we drank it. She continued