You drink from a cattle watering trough

You are so thirsty that you keep coughing gagging and choking. You walk on for a bit and there is a cattle trough. You splash the cud off of the surface of it and drink long and gulpish. You walk for a couple hours until you see a familiar landmark. You find your way home then. Its a cold bath from pump drawn and bucket transferred water and then its off to sleep.