If you notice a rotten egg smell in your water and have recently had new pipes installed, corrosion is most likely the culprit. Chemical Contamination Certain chemicals and minerals can cause a strong rotten egg smell when they get into the water. If you notice a strong odor in your water,...
This is the kind of smell you can’t quite place but you know you have smelled it before. It is the smell of decay. If you haven’t had a lot of experience with corpse sniffing, a more common comparison is the smell of flowers left too long in a vase. That scent, when the wate...
Water injection in the earth's top layer has led to another problem: blowouts. Operators inject wastewater into the shallow layers and pressurize aquifers. That pressure builds up and pops, and a burst of water infused with toxic chemicals shoots up. Sometimes, it's blowouts from wells — i...
This is the kind of smell you can’t quite place but you know you have smelled it before. It is the smell of decay. If you haven’t had a lot of experience with corpse sniffing, a more common comparison is the smell of flowers left too long in a vase. That scent, when the wate...