Running water: Running water is living water, which flows continuously (running, hydrologically speaking, a stream). We can oppose it to stagnant water which does not move.
The expression has a legal meaning largely inherited from Roman law (In Latin aqua profluens).
The primary meaning tends in everyday language (...) to be obliterated by that given by drinking water transported by pipe for domestic purposes, ie tap water.
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