What do you like to drink when you are thirsty? There is nothing that does a better job at hydrating you than a glass of clean, fresh water. However, is that what you get out of the tap in your home? This might not always be the case. What if you have a strong smell coming along with your drinking water? That might make you decide not to drink it.
Interestingly, however, a bad smell from your water is not necessarily because of anything harmful.
In fact, most of the indicators that your water is bad for you won’t have an odor or visible color.
Some smells from your water are fairly easy to figure out.
If it smells like chlorine, then the case is most likely that your water is over chlorinated. Some chlorine is necessary in your water to kill harmful bacteria, but if there is too much, you can smell it, and it could have a bad effect on you over time. You could use an activated coal filter to lower the chlorine level.
If you, on the other hand, get a smell of rotten eggs, this might be due to hydrogen sulfide in the water. You might want to check to make sure that there is no pollution near your water source.
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