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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.
One caveat: if you have smelly water at one sink, but not all of them, dump chlorine bleach down the basin overflow, instead of into the water heater. Sometimes bacteria can build up in there, too. And apropos to that: make sure it's really the hot water that smells. There are places where there is so much sulfur in the water that hot AND cold water smell. Applying these procedures won't solve that. But if the water smells like rotten eggs, and you can smell it at every hot fixture, then these solutions will work.