Water purifying pitchers.

[Catty1]

Brita pitcher with generic cartridges! The boys and I all drink it!

[Casper]

Add me to the list of people who use Brita! We only started using purified water about a year ago (we previously just drank bottled water) and I am extremely happy with it. Who knew a simple filter could make our terrible tap water taste wonderful?

[kitten645]

I've got a Brita and would like to get a bigger one. Of course, my issue is with MY forgetting to fill it so I doubt a bigger one is going to solve THAT
I did read a Consumer reports article that rated the Brita best and said filtered water is better than bottled
Claudia

[blue]

I hav eone of the bigger Brita filters, cept I dont use it for water.

[moosmom]

RICHARD,

I also have a Pur pitcher and love it. What I do is fill it, then transfer the filtered water into a 6 gallon jug with faucet (I bought it at Wal Mart). This way you always have drinkable water. It's worth the investment.

[RICHARD]

Blue,
LOL, I think I know your secret!


Thanks,

THe water here in El Lay was supposedly voted the best tasting in the country.

After it rains it has a chlorine taste to it and now that I have filtered my drinking water thru the pitcher I can really taste the differnce.

I lived in Burbank for a while and because the have their own facilities the water really sucks big time. I did the bottled water thing for a while and got tired of that rather quickly, I just needed to have my back go out lifting the bottles.


I have even started to make my ice out of the water, I take tumblers and fill them a third of the way up, freeze them and they are ready for a cold drink, I just pour in the drink and do not have to worry about ice!
I can taste the difference in my drinks.

Thanks for all your comments!

[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).