> Comments?

>Own or rent the house? If you own, put a filter in the kitchen cold water
>line. If you rent long term, there will still be a convenience payback over
>a year or three.

I agree with the in-line filter or reverse osmosis units if your
thinking long term. Even better if you get one that goes onto your
main inlet to the house, as it will increase the quality of all your
water. This can have a dramatic affect oon how long your water
consuming appliances last. I know someone who has had the same
dishwasher & washing machine for over 10 years and still going strong.
Mind you if I had really nice natural water like Jill, I think I would
stick with it.

Stu
www.cateringappliancesltd.co.uk

In article > ,
"Zippy P" > wrote:

> Anybody have any experience with Brita and/or Pur water purifier pitchers.
> The pitchers with the filters in them?
>
> I like non-tap water but don't like lugging big bottles home from the store,
> and don't want to pay $30 a month for the home delivery stuff.

I have a Britta. It works fine. I have never used any other brand of
water filter pitcher so I can't comment on the others. The filtering
benefits also depend a lot about your local tap water supply.

My tap water comes from an underground aquifer and it runs through my
building's 45 year old pipes. My water supply is heavy in lime content.
My water filter pitcher does a fantastic job of cleaning the water
before I drink it.

You might also look at other water filter options. Check Consumer
Reports. They did a review of different kinds of water filters a while
ago and I doubt that industry has changed much since that report. You
should be able to find the report at your local library or via CR's web
site at http://www.consumerreports.com if you don't mind paying their
nominal subscription fee.

On Jun 8, 12:56 pm, "Zippy P" > wrote:
> Anybody have any experience with Brita and/or Pur water purifier pitchers.
> The pitchers with the filters in them?
>
> I like non-tap water but don't like lugging big bottles home from the store,
> and don't want to pay $30 a month for the home delivery stuff.
>
> Comments?
>
> Thx!

We live in Arizona, so drinking lots of water is a must. We have had
2 Brita pitchers in our fridge for 5 years now, and we love them! The
flavor of the water is great, and having two pitchers usually means
that we always have cold water ready to go. You can usually pick up
the filters on sale and they don't need to be changed too often (about
every 3 months), so it's a cheap alternative to buying bottled water.
-- As mentioned above, you do need to make sure you have room in your
fridge as they obviously take up space.

wrote on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:35:15 -0000:

e> On Jun 8, 12:56 pm, "Zippy P" > wrote:
??>> Anybody have any experience with Brita and/or Pur water
??>> purifier pitchers. The pitchers with the filters in them?
??>>
??>> I like non-tap water but don't like lugging big bottles
??>> home from the store, and don't want to pay $30 a month for
??>> the home delivery stuff.
??>>
??>> Comments?
??>>
??>> Thx!

I have used a Brita pitcher for more than 10 years for drinking
water and making coffee. I keep it in the fridge and it's
certainly an improvement over local tap water. The coldness may
be part of the better taste but the chlorinated water from the
Potomac river is pretty bad at room temperature.The only
drawback is a lack of an indicator for replacement of the carbon
filter. Brita has tried a few devices but they can't have been
too successful since they no longer supply them.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Jun 8, 12:56 pm, "Zippy P" > wrote:
> Anybody have any experience with Brita and/or Pur water purifier pitchers.
> The pitchers with the filters in them?
>
> I like non-tap water but don't like lugging big bottles home from the store,
> and don't want to pay $30 a month for the home delivery stuff.

I'm lucky, living in St. Louis, who was just judged as teh city with the
best tasting water in the United States. I never did get why people
want bottled water, and now I know why I never got the difference.
Here, there isn't any.

jt

On Jul 2, 8:58?pm, jt august > wrote:
> On Jun 8, 12:56 pm, "Zippy P" > wrote:
>
> > Anybody have any experience with Brita and/or Pur water purifier pitchers.
> > The pitchers with the filters in them?
>
> > I like non-tap water but don't like lugging big bottles home from the store,
> > and don't want to pay $30 a month for the home delivery stuff.
>
> I'm lucky, living in St. Louis, who was just judged as teh city with the
> best tasting water in the United States. I never did get why people
> want bottled water, and now I know why I never got the difference.
> Here, there isn't any.

Pure water should have no taste... the fact that your water tastes
"good" (whatever good is) is indicative that it contains lots of
crap. People become used to the taste of the water that comes out of
their faucet (same as they do the foods they eat). But that they
learn to like crap is nothing other than acquiring ones taste
preferences by educating their palate. Having an educated palate does
not mean one doesn't have taste in ass disease, in fact quite the
opposite... one can definitely learn to prefer the taste of crappy
water

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:58:16 GMT, jt august > wrote:


>I'm lucky, living in St. Louis, who was just judged as teh city with the
>best tasting water in the United States.

Interesting -- by whom? New York has won every recent test/poll I've seen in the
last fiteen or more years. Where did NYC finish in this judging?

-- Larry

pltrgyst wrote on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:49:57 -0400:

??>> I'm lucky, living in St. Louis, who was just judged as teh
??>> city with the best tasting water in the United States.

p> Interesting -- by whom? New York has won every recent
p> test/poll I've seen in the last fiteen or more years. Where
p> did NYC finish in this judging?

I might add that some Missourans (is that the word?) don't seem
to get around much :-) Wasn't there a minor scandal a few years
ago when the bottles of something like "Adirondack Spring" water
were found to being filled from tap water in Brooklyn?

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Jun 8, 3:56 pm, "Zippy P" > wrote:
> Anybody have any experience with Brita and/or Pur water purifier pitchers.
> The pitchers with the filters in them?
>
> I like non-tap water but don't like lugging big bottles home from the store,
> and don't want to pay $30 a month for the home delivery stuff.
>
> Comments?
>
> Thx!

Has anyone ever used this? Or even seen it and decided against it?
Or heard anything about it previously. Looks interesting; however,
storing water in plastic?

http://tinyurl.com/2n3aew
Berkey Light® Water Purifiers & Berkey® Stainless Purifiers & Filters

This is a reputable company, AFAIK, selling these.

Dee Dee

Oh no James. I recently purchased a Brita pitcher at Costco and it
comes with an electronic filter changer indicator.

Look at the Brita WEB site and you will find a bunch of models with
the indicators. See the little window boxes on the top of the lids.

http://staging.sftribalddb.com/brita/index_us.html
you may have to click on "Products"

If that URL doesn't work for you just go to
http://www.brita.net/#
and navigate through till you reach the Products


Gary Hayman
Greenbelt, Maryland

On Jul 2, 10:47 am, "James Silverton" >
wrote:
> wrote on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:35:15 -0000:
>

>
> I have used a Brita pitcher for more than 10 years for drinking
> water and making coffee. I keep it in the fridge and it's
> certainly an improvement over local tap water. The coldness may
> be part of the better taste but the chlorinated water from the
> Potomac river is pretty bad at room temperature.The only
> drawback is a lack of an indicator for replacement of the carbon
> filter. Brita has tried a few devices but they can't have been
> too successful since they no longer supply them.
>
> James Silverton
> Potomac, Maryland
>
> E-mail, with obvious alterations:
> not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

zydecogary wrote on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:52:11 -0000:

z> Look at the Brita WEB site and you will find a bunch of
z> models with the indicators. See the little window boxes on
z> the top of the lids.

z> http://staging.sftribalddb.com/brita/index_us.html
z> you may have to click on "Products"

z> If that URL doesn't work for you just go to
z> http://www.brita.net/#
z> and navigate through till you reach the Products

Must be new! I did not see them last time I looked. I wonder if
they will work better than the previous mechanical counter that
gave after two cartridges?

Jim Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

In article >,
pltrgyst > wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:58:16 GMT, jt august > wrote:
>
>
> >I'm lucky, living in St. Louis, who was just judged as teh city with the
> >best tasting water in the United States.
>
> Interesting -- by whom? New York has won every recent test/poll I've seen in
> the
> last fiteen or more years. Where did NYC finish in this judging?

I chose an article from outside STL so as to verify that this wasn't
just a local claim. From WTVN in Dayton OH,

http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=6707491

jt

zydecogary > wrote:
>Oh no James. I recently purchased a Brita pitcher at Costco and it
>comes with an electronic filter changer indicator.

I think you mean "a three-month timer"...

(Yes, there are four or five bars, and when you "reset" it you don't have
to "fill it all the way up", but it really isn't able to detect how much
water has gone through the filter, much less how much stuff has been
filtered out! We have one, and the indicator *is* a useful reminder
for changing the filter, but it doesn't have any of the features I'd
really like)

Donald

In article <ie8ii.702$fw2.334@trnddc04>,
"James Silverton" > wrote:

> wrote on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:35:15 -0000:
>
> e> On Jun 8, 12:56 pm, "Zippy P" > wrote:
> ??>> Anybody have any experience with Brita and/or Pur water
> ??>> purifier pitchers. The pitchers with the filters in them?
> ??>>
> ??>> I like non-tap water but don't like lugging big bottles
> ??>> home from the store, and don't want to pay $30 a month for
> ??>> the home delivery stuff.
> ??>>
> ??>> Comments?
> ??>>
> ??>> Thx!
>
> I have used a Brita pitcher for more than 10 years for drinking
> water and making coffee. I keep it in the fridge and it's
> certainly an improvement over local tap water. The coldness may
> be part of the better taste but the chlorinated water from the
> Potomac river is pretty bad at room temperature.The only
> drawback is a lack of an indicator for replacement of the carbon
> filter. Brita has tried a few devices but they can't have been
> too successful since they no longer supply them.

Where I live, the water is pumped from underground aquifers. The water
has a high mineral content and I don't like it at all for drinking. My
cat agrees too; she drinks filtered water much more quickly than when I
just give her water right out of the tap. I use a Brita water pitcher
too and it works great.

In article >,
(Donald Tsang) wrote:

> zydecogary > wrote:
> >Oh no James. I recently purchased a Brita pitcher at Costco and it
> >comes with an electronic filter changer indicator.
>
> I think you mean "a three-month timer"...
>
> (Yes, there are four or five bars, and when you "reset" it you don't have
> to "fill it all the way up", but it really isn't able to detect how much
> water has gone through the filter, much less how much stuff has been
> filtered out! We have one, and the indicator *is* a useful reminder
> for changing the filter, but it doesn't have any of the features I'd
> really like)

Those indicators are a clever marketing tool, nothing else. My Brita
water pitcher has one of those indicators too. I ignore it. I find that
the filters last a lot longer than the indicator would have me believe,
perhaps because they may be set for a four person family, but with me,
its just me and my cat. I change the filter every six months and it
works fine; big improvement over tap water.

On Jul 4, 10:11 pm, Stan Horwitz > wrote:
> In article >,
> (Donald Tsang) wrote:
>
> > zydecogary > wrote:
> > >Oh no James. I recently purchased a Brita pitcher at Costco and it
> > >comes with an electronic filter changer indicator.
>
> > I think you mean "a three-month timer"...
>
> > (Yes, there are four or five bars, and when you "reset" it you don't have
> > to "fill it all the way up", but it really isn't able to detect how much
> > water has gone through the filter, much less how much stuff has been
> > filtered out! We have one, and the indicator *is* a useful reminder
> > for changing the filter, but it doesn't have any of the features I'd
> > really like)
>
> Those indicators are a clever marketing tool, nothing else. My Brita
> water pitcher has one of those indicators too. I ignore it. I find that
> the filters last a lot longer than the indicator would have me believe,
> perhaps because they may be set for a four person family, but with me,
> its just me and my cat. I change the filter every six months and it
> works fine; big improvement over tap water.

When I did use Brita for a while, for DH an myself, I changed it once
a month, whether it needed it or not -- how does one 'really' tell,
except that the water won't drain as well. I used it for cooking
purposes as well as we drink lots and lots of tea or coffee each
day.
DeeDee