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