Tanked drinking water?

[AdamW]

I was staying in a hotel of questionable quality with a sizeable bunch of friends this weekend. Now, due to our advanced state of extreme refreshment following a wedding reception, we believe we may have inadvertently been a disturbance to the hotel staff.

Now, not long after getting up in the morning (luckily after I had sunk several pints of water and brushed my teeth twice) we noticed the water was turned off. Completely. No electric shower, no cold water, no hot water.

I had my suspicions that the hotel staff were possibly upset with us hence shut us off deliberately as there was plenty of water in the kitchen and for a few of our group in a different part of the hotel. The owner claimed it was because "one of your party must have left the tap on all night and drained the tank".

I thought this smelled distinctly like the excrement of a male bovine, but thought I would keep it to myself until I could ask the expertise here on my return.

Would a small hotel (15 rooms) really have such great water requirements that they would need to invest in a pressurised drinking water storage tank?

It is worth noting that none of us had left a tap on as we were all sleeping 3 or 4 to a room and at least one person would have noticed a tap running hard enough to drain a tank in 4 hours (it was a late night). Now, if I wanted to get my own back on a group of hungover hooray Henry's I think that depriving them of water would be a great way to do it. But I wouldn't do it, it's just not on!

 

[croydoncorgi]

What makes you think that the water from the basin taps in the rooms would be mains-fed or from a 'pressurised tank'?
In this imperfect world, it's much more likely that both hot and cold were fed from a roof tank.
So it's quite possible that one of the other p***-heads left a bath tap on and emptied it!
I'll leave you to reflect on the wisdom of drinking (in the worst case) 'several pints' of 'dead pigeon soup' from the roof tank!

 

[AdamW]

Well, you see they said the tap water in the rooms was drinkable. As far as I am aware stagnant water with pigeons floating in doesn't count! I remember reading somewhere before that some countries with intermittent water supplies use a special pressurised tank to prevent the chlorine bubbling out. Thus you keep the drinkability of the water.

So I was wondering if these tanks are used over here in hotels and the like.

If not, then either they were talking knackers about the water being drinkable (which is probably against health and safety regs) or they were talking knackers about the "tank being empty"

Unfortunately I forgot to note how chlorinated the water tasted: if it had taste chlorinated then that would be a good indication that it was proper drinking water.