Is it good to drink rain water?

Drink it, nothing tastes better then fresh rainwater.

Best water I ever tasted was half way up the side of a mountain in one of many little streams. Flavoured with sheep excretions probably (they get everywhere) but that just adds to the realistic flavour.

When it comes down to it we drank rain water and water from streams for 4 million years (that's not counting our time as apes beforehand) and we did perfectly fine.
 
Considering rain water has been through evaporation distilling it, there shouldn't be a problem drinking it. Obviously though there will be atmospheric pollutants like sulphur dioxide in it though causing it to be acidic.
 
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Darg said:
Drink it, nothing tastes better then fresh rainwater.

Best water I ever tasted was half way up the side of a mountain in one of many little streams. Flavoured with sheep excretions probably (they get everywhere) but that just adds to the realistic flavour.

When it comes down to it we drank rain water and water from streams for 4 million years (that's not counting our time as apes beforehand) and we did perfectly fine.
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The last two hundred years have played hell on our rainwater though. It's gotten to the level where it just isn't recommended to anymore. The planet's water isn't as clean as it used to be anymore.
 
If you are worried about rain water being dangerous, and it is your only source of water, then perhaps you should buy some purification tablets. You can get them from camping stores and such, where you use an iodine tablet to make the water safe to drink, and then a 2nd tablet used later on which removes the taste of the iodine (if used too soon though, it stops the iodine from doing its thing).
 
Vinni3 said:
Is it good to drink the stuff? if you are in the middle of nowhere, without proper water.
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I think a lot of people didn't read the question properly. He's not suggesting you drink it exclusively, but in a situation where you're in the middle of nowhere with no access to treated water.

Yes, it's absolutely fine. It won't kill you and if you're in a situation where you have nothing else to drink, it will keep you alive.
 
If you are in the middle of no where = mild climate and no pollution, that's fine.
But if you are in Beijing = no.
 
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