Do people drink water from the bathroom tap tap

It's all fine, especially if it's getting boiled to make coffee.

Can't say I ever fill a glass with water in the bathroom but it's all water from the same source at the end of the day isn't it.

@KW33 having once been a cleaner in an office block , where the men’s toilets were rank in comparison to the female loos, I would -from a hygiene perspective- insist that they filled it from the kitchen tap! Taking communal food / drink items into a toilet when there is a kitchen available is unnecessary. In my own home it doesn’t bother me.

I grew up with a header tank so don't drink from the bathroom tap out of habit.
I also have a water softener and the only unsoftened water is the kitchen tap. Although it is supposed to be safe, my brain says no and doesn't like the taste!

Rationally I know it should be ok, but actually I would not like to fill a coffee machine from a communal bathroom tap like that. Particularly in a male dominated environment, considering the associated poor hygiene!

Not a sex-based issue. A tank or no tank issue.

Came to say this - OP your parent probably drilled it into you as a child but you don't have to worry about that anymore.

My DM was paranoid about the water that had been hanging about in the pipes so if you were filling a glass to drink you had to fill and dump three times before filling to drink. I can't shake that habit too even though I know it's not rational now.

I don't but am aware that it is the same water.

It all depends on your tank and pipes. In older houses bathroom water would come from a tank in the loft so would not be clean enough to drink, and also not necessarily from drinking safe pipes.
Modern houses usually have drinking water in the bathroom so it's fine to drink.
But "don't drink from the bathroom tap" has been passed down from previous generations.
As long as your work toilet tap water is drinking standard then it's fine.
Also if going to be boiled for hot drinks it's not an issue at all

"I again interjected and got the water from the kitchen water despenser"

What is the kitchen water dispenser? Do you mean the kitchen tap or a specific tap for drinking water or one of those bottled water type things?

As many others have said, it depends how the system is set up. When I was a kid we weren't allowed to drink water from the bathroom taps because the water came from a tank in the roof with standing water in it. The kitchen tap was connected to the mains and so we had to use that.
I'd wonder in your case if the "kitchen water dispenser" is there specifically because the rest of the water is not drinkable and comes from a tank somewhere.

Those sinks are strictly for handwashing. They shouldn't be used for any other purpose, for infection control reasons.

Oh I had no idea this wasn't still the case 😂 I've grown up not drinking from the bathroom tsk because of this.

Yes I drink water from the bathroom tap - every night in fact - and your situation at work wouldn't bother me at all. What on earth do you think is going to happen

On old houses the bathroom water might not be mains but in new houses it is. I do often refill my glass from the tap in my bathroom because I clean. I would be a bit repulsed at the idea of the kettle having been into the men's loos to be honest. I realise the water will be clean and have been boiled anyway but just thinking about people touching dooe handles and taps and then the kettle...and I've learnt from other threads that other people don't wash their hands!

Anecdote incoming: the Midland Hotel at St Pancras had a header tank up in the attics the size of a swimming pool. A guest drowned in there once (I can only assume drink was involved) and nobody discovered the body until the tap water started tasting funny 😬

(this was about 100 years ago)

We can only drink water from the kitchen tap because we have a water softener which “contaminates” all the other taps in the house with salt. Also, when I was a little child my mother put me off drinking water from the bathroom tap by telling me it was full of tiny little monsters, too small to be seen by the naked eye, so there’s that too.

At home I'd drink from my bathroom tap as I know my taps are clean.
At work though I would rather drink water from the kitchen tap as I wouldn't like to think how dirty the team would be in a unisex toilet.

Commercial storage tanks are sealed metal boxes though, not like the ones that used to be common in houses, no dust or insects getting in.

Probably more frequently than the taps and sinks in your home. Professional cleaners are very careful not to cross contaminate and use separate cloths and mops.

It's the same water. 🤷‍♀️

I’m the same and grew up being told to only drink from the kitchen tap, never the bathroom. My DH promises me that the bathroom tap now is no different from the kitchen tap, but I still can’t get my head around it. I believe it may come from many moons ago when the bathroom water came from a tank in the loft, and no you wouldn’t want to drink that water. But now, bathroom water largely is from the mains so it is the same water as your kitchen tap.

I regularly drink cold water from the bathroom tap and I’ve worked in places where the only water is from the sinks in the toilets.

Even though I know my bathroom tap is fed from the mains, I am still less than keen to drink from it because at Dad's the bathroom tap is fed from a tank in the loft, and we were on pain of death or worse not to drink from it. It tasted stale anyway, so we didn't.

I remember being told at school that the bathroom taps were not drinking water and we had to use the drinking fountains and this was because the tanks were on the roof and so dead birds could get in it and it wasn’t safe to drink.

I remember thinking how ick it was to wash my hands in water that dead birds were floating in and why that was okay!

I do, at home, but I know that the bathroom tap is not fed from the loft tank, it's mains. Our tank just feeds the immersion heater and the bath tap.

I would be reluctant to drink even mains water from a 'public' loo as I don't know how often the taps are cleaned, and it's not outside the realms of possibility that someone has got something gross on the tap that's gradually being washed off as the water runs. Not an issue when you're washing hands with soap but I'd not want to drink it!

I'd also be cautious in case it is coming from a tank rather than direct from the main, both because of potential for germs and also physical contamination from a badly fitting lid. (a la fawlty towers with the pigeon!)

This