If your supply is bore or well fed, then there will just be a pump to fill up a tank somewhere on the property. Depending on where the house is, the water can be great or awful. Our house is fairly low to the river, so our water from the bore is too high in iron for it to be used by us. Friends of ours have a well supply from a local farm which they can fill their tank from, and that water is perfectly good. If you're worried, the best thing to do is get the water tested by a lab. It costs something like $30 to get it checked out.
For cleaning, you can get various filters to help clean it up. We've got a 3 filter system, firstly a micron filter, which takes out any fine sediment and other lumps! Then it goes through a carbon filter which removes any odour, colour and taste. Thirdly there's an ultraviolet system it passes through which kills any bacteria in the water. In the end you get pretty good water! It's not cheap to maintain though. The micron filter is $36 per 6 months, the carbon one is $99 per 6 months to a year and the UV lamp is $350 per year.
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