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.
By far the most common cause of smelly water is bacteria that is in some water and it's this bacteria that reacts with other minerals in your water as well as the aluminum anodes in your water heater that creates the hydrogen sulfide gas, making the rotten egg and sewer odor that you smell in your water.