A recent article on wcco.com notes that:
“Residents in Minneapolis have been complaining about a foul taste and smell in their tap water lately, but the city stresses it is safe to drink.
Minneapolis Water Works said the odor typically shows up during spring, when melting snow gets into the water supply. It’s not as usual to have the odor show up at this time of year, they said.
The odor is affected by, among other things, naturally-occurring algae, which can be detected by customers even when only trace amounts are present.
The Water Works said they are working on trying to get rid of the odor through adjusted water treatment and requested patience from Minneapolis residents.”
This is a common problem in some sources of water and can be caused by many factors. As the article notes, it usually doesn’t mean the water is not fit to drink, it’s just annoying. The best way to deal with the problem is with an in-home water treatment system for the water that you drink. You could try a simple activated carbon filter to improve taste and smell of the water. Another solution is Reverse osmosis (RO) water filtration, which is a multi-step water filtering process which works slowly but is extremely effective. Reverse osmosis systems are generally used to treat cooking and drinking water supplies. It’s often used in industry but works very well in the home. Reverse osmosis uses the principles of osmosis (in which material passes slowly through a membrane and is concentrated and purified in the process) to produce very clean great tasting water! Check out our systems here if you are interested: http://www.waterfilters.net/Filters/reverse-osmosis/reverse-osmosis.htm
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