I never saw this before, can someone tell me if this is someone really bad? Thanks.
Is a leaking water heater ever not bad? I’d look for a potential plumbing leak dripping from above as well. Surface tension can make small leaks follow strange paths.
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Agree, plus it looks brand new.
Wipe it off and come back to it on your way out the door. Could be from half a dozen other places beside the WH.
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last time I ran across something like that it was from a pinhole leak 2 or 3 ft away on an elbow…
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Whether you determine the source or not…water there is bad.
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Someone bad? No.
Something bad? Yes.
I see a copper flexible pipe leading to a steel tank. That itself can cause corrosion. As @rkenney said wipe it off and circle back to see if you can narrow it down. Else say what you saw and call it out for evaluation by a professional in that field.
For education steel tanks rust, despite the “glass lining”. The only thing preventing it is called an anode rod (or the electronic equivalent). Tank vendors have gone cheap in recent years so new tanks don’t have the same expected lifetime of older ones.