Ha. I work in a shoddy, shoddy building which has no central heating and no hot water and the only cold water comes from a storage tank in the roof. We're assured that it's all right to drink because the tank is a sealed tank. I drink it anyway, I dunno, tastes all right to me. Tank water is not automatically undrinkable, it's just that if you're going to go round tallying risks there are certainly fewer involved in water coming straight out of a mains tap. Where you've got a tank with a big turnover as I imagine this one here must have, it makes little practical difference; a closed tank is kind of just a *really* large diameter pipe, after all.
Interesting to find out where that particular quirk comes from though; I'd never heard of it, but my bloke will always, always get water from the kitchen and not from the bathroom. In my previous flat the kitchen and bathroom were next to each other up against the only wall with any water services on it at all, all the water was mains with no storage of any sort and demonstrably identical but I still couldn't convince him.
I think that the tank is sealed does make a difference. The gov website didn't say it, but I'm lead to understand in 'the old days' people would sometimes go up in their loft to find a dead pigeon bobbing up and down in their tank, hemce not safe to drink. Surely also not ideal for washing in either.
Interesting to find out where that particular quirk comes from though; I'd never heard of it, but my bloke will always, always get water from the kitchen and not from the bathroom. In my previous flat the kitchen and bathroom were next to each other up against the only wall with any water services on it at all, all the water was mains with no storage of any sort and demonstrably identical but I still couldn't convince him.
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