Countertop Ultra Drinking Water Filter for VOCs Cysts Pesticides Herbicides Chlorine Taste & Odor - Clear

I don't do testing, so I can't comment on the efficacy of contaminant removal. I got it because the water in my little seaside town tastes horrid. This filter gives me great tasting water, better than any counter-top unit I've tried and was relatively easy to set up. It does use up some of your sinktop space so wouldn't be good for a sink with a rim that protrudes from the countertop, or doesn't have much space behind the sink. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I got used to flipping the little switch when I wanted to use the smaller spigot for drinking water. Otherwise, it operates like a normal faucet for dishwashing, etc.

First off, I read a lot of reviews on this one and others that are similar build. Getting them open is a struggle. I have very hard and crappy water in NM and I knew it would be hard to get open after it had been filled for quite a while so I opened it before installing and repeat around every month. It makes it so that it doesn't lock on as hard, and I'd recommend doing the same. HOT TIP: Most of the style like this use the same size filters. So even if you want one of the alkaline ones you can buy this housing and then buy the fancier filters. (I think it said the warranty would void without the OEM filters, but at this price that's not a big deal to me)We live in an RV and have never drank from the tap in any area, RV park water can be sketchy! We always got filtered drinking water but it was becoming a pain to get as we are full-time. I knew there was no way a little Brita would be strong enough to clean the water around here and started looking. Plenty of the pricier ones had some great filters, but I didn't really want to spend 100 bucks to get started and it was sometimes/often vague on what size adapters they came with.We decided on this guy because the price was right and as stated above we could upgrade filters later on. We did double up with an outdoor filter to get the big stuff to help extend this one and it's working a treat. The water tastes better than the filtered and we've had no issues. It's also wayyyy softer so we wash our faces in the kitchen sink now. 10/10 would recommend.

I have used this filtration system for years. I live in a rv park and wanted to drink filtered water and wanted filters that last more than a month. This takes 2.5x 10 inch filters. You can find them in packs of 2 or 4 that will last you for a year or more. Easy to take apart, easy to connect to your faucet. I have recently purchased one for my parents house as it is much cheaper than buying packs of bottled water. Also as my dad is not able to carry packs of 12 or 24 from grocery store to inside his house. This is a easy choice as you just change out the filters per filter manufacture instructions 3-6 months or so many gallons. This comes with a tool to allow you to open the top as it helps with torch, my 80 year old father can change the filter out and installed this. I can not say enough of how well this works and easy to install. I recommend this to anyone who wants clean water and you can choose what filters to purchase but it does come with one to start. I use the carbon filters exactly what it comes with.

leaving this review, it asks to Rate Features: Flavor... while I do not know the flavor of the filter itself because I have not yet licked the filter, the water that comes out is nice and clean. Easy enough to install but you do need to be at least somewhat mechanically inclined. Looks like it should be a good value for the money if it really does last as long as they make it sound. The fact that they have a website and sell other places means not likely for the filter cartridges to disappear any time soon.update 2023NOV27: After about 1 year and 4 months, the water started tasting nasty, so time to change the filter which I already had on hand. Now I know that a cartridge here in this apartment will last a little over a year, and can set an alarm for 1 year and 2 months, and buy the next filter cartridge sometime before then. As long as you buy the ifilter cartridge from ifilter on here, there is no reason to think it won't work. some people who wrote reviews are probably not mechanically inclined to understand how things work, but whatever... no problems for me... unscrewing using the wrench thing that comes with the filter (make sure you save that). I do recommend cleaning the inside and outside at this time with warm dishsoapy water, and then rinsing the F out of the everything, then putting the case back on without the filter yet and letting it run a couple minutes to rinse any soap out of the lines, and then putting the filter in, cranking down on the case tight to make sure it won't leak, and then letting it run for 5 minutes just to make sure any carbon or factory dust from the new cartridge is washed out. Taste test afterward to make sure the water tastes "clean". then good to go. and I am planning on getting an extra one to swap out during cartridge change, so I can more easily wash out recently used one and pack it away with next cartridge, while using the packed away one that already has a new cartridge in it. just to make the cleaning and cartridge swap a bit easier. (easier to clean the thing while not connected. and for 40 bucks, might as well have an extra on hand.)

Flavor of water seems better than lower level filter... Well designed, fast service from provider. Upping the ante to a stronger filter where I live. The City water quality seems to be deteriorating. Higher level of chlorination.