Indoor plumbing came at the expense of cummunity integration. The Spanish village of Ibieca found that plumbing, installed during the 1970s, compromised its self-conscious community, disturbing a traditional pattern of water use.
Indoor water pipes did not allow for donkeys to haul water, so villagers started depending on tractors. This changed the village's lifestyle, an example of the changes is how women stopped going to the fountain they used as washbasin to talk about everyday life and gossip.
Social bonds were weakened and the village's way of using water and everything that came with it was slowly vanished by the introduction of indoor plumbing.