Safety of drinking catchment water?

[Jay Bondesen]

I think, as several people have said here, that water is water and there is really no reason to think that county water is better than catchment. Rain is really pretty clean compared to what well water can pick up from the soil and lots of mainland cities use surface water from rivers that pick up all kinds of run-off pollution. So storage, treatment, and supply systems are the critical issues and homeowners have access to the same systems that the county does. The county water is probably fine but I kind of like to be a little more in control of as much of my stuff as I can. It's been two years so far of using exclusively catchment with no obvious health problems.

Jay