<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by blueDC:
When United runs out of bottled water mid-flight, where does the water come from then? ... They ended up serving water from stainless jugs and the water tastes - to put it gently - different and not in a good way. I've been wondering ever since</font>
This water is from the plane's water tanks. I can't find the link to the thread on Zach's experiment, but it's mentioned
here with a link to a report
here. I've never touched the stuff since reading this...