| There's nothing quite as nauseating as | | | | illness; it just smells bad). |
| running some water for a bath, or pouring | | | | |
| yourself what you think will be a nice, | | | | Nevertheless, you probably don't want your |
| refreshing drink, and then realizing that | | | | water to contain the scent of even beneficial |
| there is a bad smell coming from your water. | | | | bacteria. There are various treatments |
| It's made all the worse by the fact that most | | | | available to reduce the smell in your water |
| of the time we don't expect it, and it can | | | | as well as the shock option. |
| take a little while before we even identify | | | | |
| the source. By then you might already be | | | | Pipes |
| immersed, or worse, have take a sip! | | | | |
| | | | Another big cause of complaints when it comes |
| So what is it that causes your water to take | | | | to odours in a household's drinking water is |
| on that disgusting smell? In this article, we | | | | the scents picked up through the pipes in a |
| will take a look at some of the most common | | | | house. This may actually indicate a serious |
| odours in water and what causes them. | | | | problem with the way in which you are getting |
| | | | water from your home. Pipe smells in the |
| Sulphur | | | | water are almost always of the metallic or |
| | | | plastic variety. What this indicates is that |
| The biggest odour complaint when it comes to | | | | your pipe system is starting to break down: |
| water supplies is the smell of sulphur. | | | | as with sulphur, the scent indicates small |
| Sulphur has a very tell tale scent, most | | | | molecules that are present in the water |
| people describe it as close to that of rotten | | | | itself. |
| eggs. Sulphur is a wide spread smell, | | | | |
| occurring due to the natural metabolizing | | | | The only way to get rid of this smell |
| done by some forms of bacteria (it's | | | | permanently is to undergo a renovation to |
| important to note that although bacteria may | | | | your household's plumbing systems. It's an |
| have some negative connotations, it certainly | | | | expensive process, but in the meantime you |
| provides some necessary functions in nature, | | | | can eliminate the problem using water |
| so the presence of sulphur producing bacteria | | | | filtration systems and other treatments. |
| isn't bad in most contexts, nor will it cause | | | | |