Water carrier

and transported or carried containers with water to people's homes.

After the construction of pipe networks, the profession of water carrier became unnecessary and disappeared.

[2] In late Qing dynasty Chengdu, there were over one thousand people who worked as water carriers.

They not only performed their official duties, but also helped the elderly and sick who could not take care of themselves with housework.

[3] Between the 16th and 19th centuries in Ottoman Turkey, dervishes called saka or sebiljee distributed water for charitable purposes.