COMMON WATER QUALITY PROBLEMS |
POSSIBLE CAUSES |
SOLUTIONS |
- Unpleasant taste & odor |
Chlorine
Algae
Fungi
Molds |
- Carbon Filters
- Ceramic Filters - Reverse Osmosis
- Shower Filters |
- Mineral scale build-up in kettles, heaters & plumbing
- Soap scum, excess soap & detergent consumption
- Dingy laundry, bathtub ring
|
Hardness |
- Water softeners |
- Rusty to black stains on fixtures & laundry
- Rusty to black water
- Metallic taste & odor |
Iron
Manganese |
- Water softeners
- Greensand filtration - Birm filtration - Pyrolox filtration |
- Red to brown slime in toilet tanks and plumbing
- Reddish filament-like particles in water
- Sudden appearance of iron
- Staining and unpleasant taste & odor |
Iron bacteria |
- Chlorination units |
- Gastro-intestinal disease including: typhoid fever, dysentery, diarrhea |
Biological contaminants |
- UV systems
- Chlorination units
- Ceramics filters |
- Rotten-egg smell & taste
- Tarnish silver & copper
- Corrodes plumbing
|
Hydrogen sulfide |
- Chlorination units
- Greensand |
- Salty taste - Corrosive |
Chloride |
- Reverse Osmosis
|
- Cloudy water sediment
Sand & silt
|
Turbidity (clay) |
- Sediment filtration
|
- Gassy smell - Gas bubbles escaping from water |
Methane
Radon |
- Carbon Filters |
- Other major toxic contaminants |
Arsenic
Lead
Nitrate
Fluoride |
- Reverse Osmosis |