Vitapur GWF8 Water Filtration System For Top-load Water Dispensers , White

Bought this to help with our drinking water. The town we live in doesn't have the best tasting water and this makes life easier. Easy to fill, kid friendly, and fits with just about any base you can find. The water tastes better than what we we have and was super simple to put together. My autistic children love filling it up and watching the water filter out.

I love this. It is economical and very green. No more expensive bottled water delivery——never run low! Easy to clean and change the filter.

I bought this to use on Haier WDNS32BW Water Dispenser with Power Indicator Lights that I purchased elsewhere, but you can read my review of it here on Amazon. The system fits my model just fine. It wasn't necessary to remove the flotation device at the bottom of the filtration system - which is something the assembly instructions say you may need to do, depending on your dispenser. It's filtering perfectly. Water is crystal clear, and it tastes pure and clean. No leaks anywhere, inside or out. By golly, I like it. A lot! I haven't measured the exact capacity, but I think the lower chamber will hold between six and seven liters of water. I live alone, and mine needs refilling about every three days. I use the dispenser several times a day for drinking water and hot tea, and sometimes kimchi or hot cereal. Assembling the parts is a bit of a trick because the two tank pieces come nested together with plastic film between them. I had to soak the whole thing in soapy water before the top and bottom pieces would slip apart. Once it was assembled, I had the filtration system working in no time. The quality of the product is really very good, and so is the quality of the water it filters. I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a simple, inexpensive alternative to bottled water delivery.

Unless or until we get a comparable water dispenser type filter tank I'm left basing my thoughts on out of box experience and comparisons to other filtration methods we have used. Here goes. The unit comes in about a half dozen pieces packaged in one box. The instructions are good, the assembly is not rocket scientry. There are, as others report, a couple of miseries. One is the nested nature of the tank upper and lower sections. The manufacturer does this for all the right reasons shippingwise and if the box hasn't been subjected to an inordinate amount of shake, rattle and roll aggravating how one piece settles into the other I expect that the contents would remain reasonably easy to separate for assembly. Alas, this is the real world. Expect the worst, hope for the best. It took me about as long to type this as it did to get the pieces unpacked but I do fiddly bits for a living so there's that. Still, I can see how with enough settling the two tank body components could challenge the end user to a death match. The other thing is the lid assembly which begs "break me, I'm a fragile polymer ring and I'm begging you to be just a little hamhanded so I can rain on your parade." Don't be hamhanded and you should be fine. Once assembled it's as rugged as any other oversized lid on a hinged ring... made of plastic. Here's an obvious tidbit. This Greenway system is not for use in coolers that store the bottle below. If you doubt that statement and go ahead and try, please post a video. This is a pretty dry topic but a vid of a bottom fed attempt would wet it up pretty good. My cooler is a floor standing Primo. There's umptyteen models of floorstanding Primos but they are probably all just about the same structurally. In my case, I had to remove the ring that provides the rest for store bought bottles and with the ring comes the spear tip that pierces the store bought bottle lid. YMMV but the ring/spear slides out with a little effort. I think that the absence of the ring makes the Greenway appear less stable than a store bought bottle is with the ring left in place. Fortunately since my wife and I tend not to engage in Greco Roman style wrestling in the kitchen much anymore the Greenway seems fine on its perch without said ring for support. The instructions include an appropriate warning about overfilling. It is not wasted words. The water quality is today with less than a months use registering 47 PPM from the Greenway, while my tap (city water) is measuring 58. I have seen the Greenway as low as 36 and we typically get the high thirties out of both a faucet PUR and a Britta box in the refrigerator. Subjectively the water from the Greenway tastes good, expectedly sweet and with enough mineralization to tell my taste buds this is not RODI. I am not impressed though with today's PPM reading compared to my other sources of filtered water. I do not have a regular testing regimen. I tested it when new and a couple of days later but not since until this review. Unexpected result and I guess that I will be more diligent and update. OTOH the Greenway is way more convenient than our other filtered sources. I get quite a bit of convenience from the cooler itself so it's fuzzy math carving out the Greenways contribution but suffice to say the Greenway is integral to having a 4 gallon reservoir of filtered water on hand that I don't have to shlep from the market or pay inflated prices to have filtered and delivered to me. That alone is a no brainer. My other filtered water options carry their own baggage, not the least of which is filter changes, committed refrigerator space, goofy wart on the end of our expensive kitchen faucet and so forth. The economics and ergonomics of the Greenway rate it a 4 on the Lee scale although it is really a 3.75 or thereabouts in lieu of the less than stellar filtering results. It is just so much better a solution feeding this thing one gallon jugs of tap water than it is storing and hoisting five gallon jugs of store bought water. Lastly, the Greenway is not the only game in town. It's kind of antiseptic looking and if your kitchen is anything other than "industrial chic" the Greenway will not augment your food prep gestalt. Having been through a few of the hand held plastic water dispenser types I would venture to guess that this thing will look pretty weathered in a couple, maybe three years. Since it's so prominent wherever it is due to it's size that means it either earns it's keep nicely on all fronts or by 2015 it gets replaced by a less Spartan looking competitor. Either way, the concept is outstanding and should be a wake up call to the ridiculously overhyped and overpriced bottled water industry.

I love this product! I wanted a water cooler for along time but didn't want to deal with water delivery service or carrying/lifting heavy bottles, this seemed like a great solution. Like another reviewer I had a hard time separating the top half from the bottom half when it came out of the packaging - they were "suctioned" together and I needed help to get them apart. You need to soak the new filter for a half an hour: charcoal colored bits came out of it and I was concerned that it would get into the water but after the half hour soak and rinse all was clear. Our water tastes great with no chlorine/chemical odor. Filling the top every couple of days is easier to me than arranging for bottles to be delivered or remembering to put out the empties and have to lug in those heavy bottles. And with back problems there's no way would I be able to lift the bottle to put it on top of the cooler, so this is the perfect answer. I purchased it along with an Avanti hot/cold water dispenser unit Avanti WDP75 Hot and Cold Water Dispenser which unfortunately is defective (and the company has terrible customer service) so I've ordered a Clover cooler and hoping for better luck (and returning the Avanti.) The Greenway Water Dispenser Filtration System is a very smart idea, great design, and works well. And bonus, it is attractive and looks better on top of the cooler in my kitchen than the delivery bottles would.