Forty years ago, when I was in high school, there was a funny story in Reader's Digest, or somesuch: some students had been told to ask their grandparents about the "best advancement in the kitchen" since they were young...one grandmother responded: "running water."
I thought that was a hoot, until I had the "opportunity" to live in a hut, and decided to put "running water" into the kitchen, by running a water line from a stream, down to the cabin, so that I'd have continuously running, COLD water. It took the better part of a week to get used to the sound...until then, the outhouse got lots of use.
We have lots to be thankful for.