Let’s be real: your nose is not a certified lab. That faint whiff of rotten eggs might be sulfur, or it could be the ghost of a bad egg salad sandwich from 1998. Well water is unregulated, meaning the EPA isn’t sending a guy in a white van to check it for you. You are the sole guardian of your aqua-kingdom, and ignoring a weird taste is like ignoring a smoke alarm because you’re too lazy to change the battery.
Here’s a surprising fact that will make you spit out your tap water: nearly 1 in 5 private wells contain contaminants at levels that would make a municipal water inspector cry. We’re talking things like coliform bacteria, which is a polite way of saying “poop germs.” You don’t want to drink that, no matter how much it’s been filtered through granite.
