HarryKrause wrote:

Like many things, the "taste" of water is subjective, assuming it isn't
loaded up with foul-tasting or smelling chemicals. For some reason "boat
water" always tastes "flat" to me.

I don't drink any to find out, unless it's by accident.

We have well water at our house, and it is pretty decent for drinking,
especially since we filter it. But I still rather take bottled water on
board, and drink that. It's no trouble for me to do so.

I fill bottles from my well for drinking water, too, and consider it
SOP until/unless yatchs are fitted with a separate drinking water tank
& associated piping system & tap(s). Most shipboard tradition & design
has always segregated potable from drinking systems, no matter how
clean any load of the former may be or what it may taste like. It's
ingrained for other reasons that, while of lesser consideration on a
yacht, haven't just gone away.

But it does seem odd to me that installing a separate small tank &
appropriate system for drinking water hasn't caught on much in the
boating world - considering everything else that is bought & installed
at great cost. Such as enough navgear to sail to Pluto through a
meteor field without touching the wheel nor picking up a pair of
binoculars. :-) Perhaps many assume there'll be good drinking water
available for free on Pluto, too, and that tank contamination never
happens?