R/O water smells skunky

[DiverDude]

Originally Posted by mike31154

Wow! 600-800, that's huge TDS. I thought I read somewhere that anything over 500 is unfit for human consumption and water coming out of your tap is mandated by law to be below that...

It sounds awful, doens't it ? I'm sure the tap water at Tony's place is just fine to drink though. I think if you ask some people who are out of town and are on a well, you'll hear about numbers higher than that.