{"id":69476,"date":"2025-08-14T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69476\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:57:09","slug":"ontario-citys-water-may-taste-musty-or-earthy-due-to-seasonal-change-officials-advise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69476\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario city\u2019s water may taste \u2018musty or earthy\u2019 due to seasonal change, officials advise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The City of Owen Sound is advising residents that water in the area may taste \u201cmusty or earthy\u201d in late August to early September.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755073388_375_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The city said it is not uncommon for the water to have short-term taste and odour issues as Georgian Bay temperatures hit their seasonal peak.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are often noticeable as there is an increase in chlorine\u2019s taste or odour, the city said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755073389_716_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a common occurrence in many Ontario municipalities, such as Owen Sound, which gets its water supply from surface water sources and experiences this problem periodically,\u201d the city said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile changes in taste and odour may be unpleasant for some with sensitive senses, these changes only affect the water\u2019s aesthetic qualities and do not impact its safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11332831\/air-canada-flights-strike-your-rights\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755190629_586_Air-Canada-Flight-Attendants-Passengers.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tGot an Air Canada ticket? 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As well, seasonal biological changes in the source water can produce odour-causing chemical compounds called geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They did note tap water from the municipal water supply systems remains safe to drink during that time.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Toronto<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The City of Owen Sound is advising residents that water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,11858,66,15887],"class_list":["post-69476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-owen-sound","tag-science","tag-tap-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}