Water funny wet stuff

Water a thing you take for granted in a house. You just turn on a tap and you get water coming out. Well that's what used to happen before we moved to France. Before we started ripping the house to bits we would get water out of the tap if; only one tap was turned on (two on and the pressure was not enough so they would both stop), the cows weren't drinking from the trough outside as this was the first stop in the water route. All things considered quite not modern. Don't take a shower if the cows are walking down the field towards the drinking trough or you could end up soaking wet, soap everywhere and shampoo in your hair and no water to rinse it off with. Not a pretty picture. Get it right though and hey brilliant, that is, until one day Lynda noticed the water was a little brown in colour and had a distinct smell of cow s**t if you know what I mean?
Just incase you haven't read our story so far(if not why not?) we do not have mains water but have a natural source located about 100ft away from the house. I went up to the source and squished through a load of mud,water and cows mess to get to the lid that covers the source. On taking it off the cause of the problem was obvious. With all the rain that we'd had recently it had washed the cow mess straight into our water supply, lovely!!!
Telephone call to the mayor ( his cows ) he arrived in usual farming clothes including socks & sandals and squished his way to have a look, yep definitely got a problem. Will move cows and get us a water tanker of clean water bought up by tractor to keep us going. Old owner of house turns up ( cows on his land ) squishes his way to have a look. yep definitely got a problem. He went and got his tractor with a shovel on the front and dragged the mud and s**t away from the top of the source and dumped it further down the track where it wouldn't drain back into the source again. The mayors wife arrives next and sympathizes with our predicament, then goes to have a look as well! The old owner gives us a key to one of his other farms and says use the shower when ever we want until this sorted properly. Mayor returns with a tanker of 2000 litres of clean water. All we have to do now is connect it into house supply line and bobs your uncle water in the house again, but as this is France, you will know that its never as simple as you first thought!

we still have to drain the source and clean it out as well but that's another day......