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The cured hides of animals were stitched and used by the water carriers before earthen jars came into existence
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In India, the water carriers were known as bhistees. Bhistees predated piped water supplies and drew water from wells or rivers. This kind of a water carrier used earthen pitchers, and could probably move more water on his shoulders than a bhistee with a leather pouch (link below).
Today goatskins, pigskins and earthen pitchers have given way to plastic jars and bottles. The bhistee has been supplanted by huge, dripping water tankers that supplement often inadequate piped water supplies in towns and cities. |
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