Imagine children taken from their natural parents, because there was no running water in their home and for no other reason (planning code, county standard in a Republican County).
Interesting. I remember spending time in the summer with my mother's grand cousin who had a big wood frame house on a hill facing the Southern RR line near Bealton Va. There was no running water and electricity in only three rooms. It was one of the most pleasurable times of my childhood. Somehow i never suffered any lasting harm from being exposed to such atrocious conditions