It's true. There were always outages, or like random things that were hard to come by. So we'd brush our teeth with toothpaste while not being able to buy baking soda, or weird shit like that. This place is bizarrely similar, while being also a lot different, but adaptation happens.
That said, I'd be okay with hot water again. I've done the boil tons of water so you can enjoy a bath thing, and it's not my favorite activity.