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
Digny 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 apperance of iron
Staining and unpleasant taste & odor |
Iron bacteria |
Chloriantion 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 sulphide |
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 |
