It is important to look after the water in your home, both to ensure that you do not waste this precious commodity and to ensure that the water that you are drinking or using for bathing, food preparation or the like is hygienic.
There are some simple things that everyone can do in order to ensure this and all it takes is the will to do so and a little bit of regular maintenance, which is not much when it is your health and the health of your loved ones that is at stake.
Make sure that your taps are hygienic by ensuring that they are thoroughly cleaned with a mild household disinfectant, including inside the spout, to ensure that the many bacteria that could grow in and on them from dirty hands and food particles from washing items in the kitchen sink are removed.
Check, maintain and change the rubber hoses in your laundry and on your dishwasher regularly to ensure that dirty water does not return to the main water supply and make your tap water taste like rubber or smell funny. It is best to also fit non-return valves to both your washing-machine and dishwasher so that this does not happen.
If you find that your tap water is cloudy or milky in appearance, it may be due to tiny air bubbles in the water caused by the tap not being run for some time or a faulty setting on the stop valve on the incoming service pipe. Adjusting the stop tap should resolve this problem although it is only air and not dangerous.
If it is unusual for your water to be cloudy, or your water is brown in colour, and this occurs in a tap that is regularly used and adjusting the stop valve does not help, the problem may be a burst water main or recent work on the pipes – contact your water company about this.
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