Click âDisease of the Week,â find rotavirus, and take the quiz to test your knowledge! Rotavirus is a contagious virus that can cause gastroenteritis (inflammation of the stomach and intestines). Symptoms include severe watery diarrhea, often with vomiting, fever, and abdominal pain.
The odor of hydrogen sulfide gas can be detected in water at a very low level. Smell the water coming out of the hot and cold water faucets. Determine which faucets have the odor. The rotten egg smell will often be more noticeable from the hot water because more of the gas is vaporized.
Water in the Michiana area can certainly be smelly. Usually, if your water smells like sulfur or rotten eggs, the reason is because your water has high Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) content. H2S is a mineral that is released from the earth and finds its way into groundwater. Itâs especially common in well water located near shale, sandstone, coal, peat, or oil. (Occasionally, a rotten-egg smell in your water could also be caused by a water heater or by sewage pollution in your water.