| Wouldn't trust that method
The smell method might be a good way to accurately detect a contaminated water source, but it in no way should rule out possible contamination. It would need to be active and pretty bad to smell, no way near drinkable levels. I work in a hospital laboratory and a trained nose can detect certain types of bacteria grown on an agar plate, but not usually just as a collected specimen. E. coli (one of the colioform bacteria) has a definite unique smell as well as others...
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