To put a bit of common sense back into this, I have drunk water from a cold tank - an enclosed one with no dead rats in it. That was fine.
There comes a point when certain systems are clearly a health risk (open tank in loft full of dead things) - but taking an in-extremis view that "potable" must only be supplied through food certified components and subjected to either remaining cold or being heated to 70-odd+ C is nonsense in domestic situations.
So, yes, I'd be happy drinking from any reasonable direct HW system. After all, in a typical domestic system, even "potable" water has been through many pipes and components that leave something to be desired - that rusty old street main, that bit of lead pipe under the drive... None of these would pass for a new installation, but nobody is ever hurt by it.