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.

[mike31154]

Originally Posted by DiverDude

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.

Is it possible that he is taking a reading in the wrong place, like somehwere in the waste line? Just can't wrap my mind around that high of a number coming out of a reasonably serviceable RO membrane.