Drinking water from bathroom is it safe?

[areyouthereMNtismeMargaret]

Someone asked the other day but I cannot find the thread.
Our tap has just broke in kitchen the council have told us we have to wait until Friday for it to be fixed and that it is safe to use bathroom as drinking water.

I did not think this was the case .

Can anyone please enlighten me hoping you are going to tell me it's safe as I really don't want to fight with council tonight .

In our current house the cold water comes straight from the mains and so is safe to drink. I think it is something to do with having a combi-boiler.

In our last house the cold water came from a tank in the loft. There is a possibility that the water has been standing around for a while (or that the tank has a dead mouse in it or something) so not safe to drink. Except the cold tap in the kitchen that came from the mains.

We have a high pressure system in our house, so we can drink cold water from any tap (they are all mains). Most houses get their bathroom water from an open storage tank in the loft (which will not be clean).

You will need to boil your drinking water or use bottled until your tap is fixed.

Original thread has some useful info.

HTH

crikey , never heard all this before, but I think the risk must be pretty minimal surely if it's safe to brush your teeth in it's not that risky to have the occasional drink from the bathroom tap I really don't think it's ever made me or anyone in our family ill (I often tell the kids to get water from the bathroom tap if they can't use the kitchen tap for some reason).

I remember once a friend telling me in great earnestness and at great length, how you must never drink water from the hot tap, it was from the dangerous tank in the loft, etc.

Only he didn't realise we had a combi boiler, no tank in the loft at all!

As long as the water comes from the mains it should be safe.

At least I hope so as I gave Baby GoodBits water from the bathroom to drink after he locked us in and it took a couple of hours for my parents to arrive with the spare key to rescue us! He has had no adverse reactions