Water purifying pitchers.

[Catlady711]

Our water has never tasted good and we've tried the water pitcher things without any sucess (still tasted nasty) and still had some floaties in it.

A couple years ago they changed where they get the source of our water from and things went from bad to worse if you can believe that. Now the water smells so strongly of bleach you'd think you were drinking clorox straight from the bottle, it had more foaties in it, and now leaves a reddish ring around anything it touches for a length of time (toilet, cat water bowl etc).

We decided that if it looked and smelled like that it couldn't possibly be fit to drink so we started boiling it. For filtering we cut down the top of a cone shaped coffee filter to fit a funnel and pour the water over into jugs we keep in the fridge.

No more nasty taste, no more red rings, no more bleach smell. The coffee filters are cheap and a good tea kettle isn't very expensive and has more than paid for itself. Now I find myself drinking water far more than I ever had in my whole life (which still isn't nearly enough though).

[blue]

CatLady, are the lines under your sinks rubber and if they are how old are they?

My parents had problems with floaties in their water and it was the rubber connecting lines under the sinks.

[Catlady711]

Not sure what the lines under the sink are made of to tell you the truth. I never paid any attention. If it's the ones I'm thinking of, then I think it's pvc, but I'll have to ask hubby on that.

I don't think the problem is my sink lines though because the water is like that at my mom's house, at my workplace, and at hubby's workplace (which is newer than all of them). I'm thinking our city just has cruddy tasting water.

[RICHARD]

I have coupons for a PUR water products-5 dollars off a pitcher and two $1.00 off coupons for the replacement filters.

I bought my basic pitcher for 15.00 at Target - with the coupon, a pitcher would be around 10 dollars. A really good investment- the water tastes wonderful.

Let me know?