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because it is pure from the springs and therefor tastless... also it is only odorless when it is pure and when it is touching soil and many other substances, it has an odor.

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Nothing in life is pure. Distilled water is basically pure water with a few impurities; this is also known as the universal solvent. A spring, a literal hole in the ground, is definitely not a source of pure water.

Color > Distilled water is blue. It is faint so you would not see it in a small quantity, but you do see the blue color through a few feet of water. It must block the passage of red light as well as some other invisible wave-lengths. UV light creates ozone that helps make water safe to drink.

Taste > Distilled water has a complex, but mostly sweet, taste. After drinking it for a while it seems to lose its taste. The lack of a taste may help us detect impurities in the water.

Odor > Water is a volatile chemical, meaning it produces a vapor when exposed to the air; even when frozen. There is no physical reason a person would be unable to smell it, and commonly many smells are associated with water such as mildew, ozone, and the fresh smell after a snow. Also, many smells we experience are just physical sensations, alcohol tingles for example, rather than being a pure odor. So we may have no olfactory gland capable of sensing it, but we can readily detect humidity by the relief of dryness in our throat or nose. Scientists say that animals can smell it. True or not, the odor would be in the same category as wave lengths of light that can not be detected by the human eye; the odor is there regardless.

Water is likely odorless because it is around us all the time and we can detect humidity, meaning that a smell serves no real purpose. It must not be similar enough, in shape, to other molecules detected by the olfactory.

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