"Waters of Versailles" is a 2015 fantasy novella by Kelly Robson, about plumbing.
Sylvain de Guilherand introduces toilets and other aspects of indoor plumbing to the Palais de Versailles during the reign of Louis XV; however, this is complicated by the attitudes of the aristocracy — and by the personality of the captive nixie he is secretly using to power the system.
"Waters of Versailles" won the 2016 Aurora Award for Short Fiction,[1] and was a finalist for the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novella[2] and the 2016 World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction.
[3] Jonathan Strahan called it "light, funny, and perceptive",[4] while Gary K. Wolfe considered it to be "clever".
[5] This article about a fantasy short story (or stories) published in the 2010s is a stub.