"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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The Natural Philosopher writes:
They do but I wouldn't advise storing bath or hand basin water, it gets
very smelly very quickly.

So does any water in a butt, even fresh rainwater.

I've never had my rainwater butt go smelly, even when not taking
any water from it during long hot periods.

Nor have I. In an open container algae grow but they don't make it smelly.

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That's what I have for rainwater. Mine has a crude gauze filter,
which may be why my butt never smells;-).

:-)

Well, we don't have a filter at the delivery end but Spouse made a domed
wire cap for the gutter end. I'd be prepared to drink the water from our
roofs, in fact I have done. I wouldn't like to drink the soapy,
bubble-bathy, shed skinny and general mucky and sludgy liquid from my bath -
even before it had been stored!

Mary

Mary