Water is essential for modern living. It is used for drinking and cooking in the home, as well as bathing, doing dishes, and washing laundry, as well as watering gardens and filling swimming pools. Today’s American home should have adequate plumbing and water quality, but sometimes it will not, and testing and filtration methods may be needed to get everything back into working order. Some homes even use a private well; if one’s well water smells strange, that is just one indicator of several that there is a problem. Well water smells and other symptoms mean that professionals should be called in to deal with water contamination.