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They notice it first in the sinks: orange streaks that won’t scrub away. The laundry turns dingy. Coffee tastes metallic, the compact fluoride filter solutions shower smells like sulfur, and the kids ask why the water looks “rusty.” That was a regular Tuesday for Diego and Mei Okafor—new acreage owners north of Monroe, Washington—until their water report came back with 12.6 ppm iron, 0.18 ppm manganese, and intermittent hydroge