Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Water Quality Continued

The second category for assessing the quality of your water is Aroma. Tap water often has a chemical scent. This can be very strong or mild. If you can smell the chlorine, then the treatment is too strong and more on the order of that that you would use for a swimming pool, not for something you would drink.

Metallic smells to the water can be there as a result of copper pipes used to transport the water. Most bottled waters don't have this problem, but they sometimes can take on the smell of the plastic if a cheaper grade of plastic is used for for packaging.

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