You might want to get your water tested, as it might be contaminated. Usually the local health department will have inexpensive test kits you can use. I would NOT drink the water, as it COULD make you sick. Gallons of good bottled water should be cheap at your supermarket and can be used for drinking, brushing teeth and cooking.
If I didn"t know where my water was coming from, I would first look for the well. The well might be in a pump house, or it might be a capped steel pipe 4 to 8 inches thick sticking up somewhere on the property. The cap may have pipes sticking out of it, or the pipes are probably buried several feet under the surface. There may be pipe plugs in the cap.
If your water is contaminated with bacteria, it might help to chlorinate your well by pouring several gallons of the cheapest unscented supermarket laundry bleach down in the well. Then you let the well sit for a day or two, using the minimum amount of water you can. Flushing toilets is OK, but doing laundry or taking showers might not be a good idea, as the bleach might cause damage to the clothes or to your skin. After a day or two, hook up a hose to an outside faucet and let the water run for a while on an area that you don"t really care if the plants die from the chlorine. After an hour or two, if the water from the hose no longer smells strongly of bleach, you can turn it off. Then go to each faucet in the house and run them until the chlorine odor is gone. Your water system SHOULD be clear of most bacteria, but you might want to test it again a couple of days later.
If chlorinating the well and running a lot of water through the system don"t help the odor problem, you might want to consult a professional to see what they think might be making the water stinky.
If it was only the hot water smelling bad, I would suspect the sacrificial anode in you hot water tank had eroded away.
I have a well water system, and sometimes the water has some odor, usually of sulfur. It also has quite a bit of dissolved iron, but the water softener system more or less takes care of that. We do not drink our well water, but use it for almost everything else.
I generally chlorinate my well about twice a year, with liquid bleach. About once a year I treat my well with citric acid, which removes a lot of the iron from the well, making it more soluble. After I treat the well either way, I let the hose run for a few hours, and probably waste a couple thousand gallons of water. After I treat my well, the water is lots better smelling and has less iron in it.
My water comes from a basalt formation that must have a great deal of iron in it. When I first drilled the well, the water was crystal clear, smelled and tasted great and was even fairly soft. But over time, it got more and more iron in it, so in our old house without a softener, it was necessary to brush the toilet every other day, or it would be brown below the water line. I suspect that my well and others in the area exposed the basalt to some air or oxygen, causing the existing iron to oxidize into a more soluble form, polluting the water.
There are devices to help make water safe and more pleasant. But doing the chlorination of the well is usually the first step, and it is probably something you could do yourself quite cheaply. Hope it works out for you. Good luck!
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