ZeroWater 22-Cup Ready-Read 5-Stage Water Filter Pitcher Dispenser with 5-Stage 0 TDS Zero Water Filter – IAPMO Certified to Reduce Metals, Chlorine, Lead, Chromium, and Forever Chemicals PFOA/PFOS

It really works – removes everything from your water
My wife and I live in Arizona, which has some of the hardest water in the country. It’s safe but it’s basically dusty, dirty desert river water with all sorts of minerals and dirt in it. We use a filter on our refrigerator for drinking water but my wife still refuses to drink it; she says it tastes terrible. I never noticed it that much – I feel like straight drinking water usually tastes bad regardless – but especially with ice, I could smell it.
So I ordered this pitcher because I feel like constantly buying bottled water like my wife’s been doing is really wasteful in a whole bunch of ways. And we both love it. We don’t use it all the time and I’ll get to why in a second, but when we want just clean, good tasting drinking water or ice, it really beats any other filtered water, especially here.
I thought it was a nice touch that it comes with a TDS (total dissolved solids) meter that you can use to measure your water before and after to both be sure the Zero Water filter is working and also know when to buy a new one (they say when the TDS go above a certain threshold, the filter needs replacing). I measured our water from the tap with 500ppm dissolved solids! That is very high. I then filtered this with Zero Water and it went down to 3ppm. Not 0, but that’s a tough number to start with.
I then tested our filtered refrigerator water and it still measured at 400ppm! So the fridge filter (which is a standard carbon filter like in every other filtration system) is doing something, but it’s not very effective on Arizona water. Also, my wife was right! The fridge filtered water is still pretty terrible compared to even unfiltered water from, say, New York (which actually has really good natural water).
But I then re-filtered the fridge water through Zero Water and the result was 0ppm. And I think that’s a fairer test, since most people will be starting with water that’s probably in the 100-300ppm range.
Since the fridge filter starts complaining that it needs to be changed at 6 months regardless of usage, and there’s really no other convenient way to know when it’s dead, we just do that all the time now… we re-filter our fridge water for drinking and ice. But most people won’t need to do that – most people can just filter their tap water and will get 0ppm water from Zero Water filters.
Now, I will say that I still drink the straight fridge filtered water sometimes, and we also use it in cooking and other things. That’s because Zero Water literally filters *everything*, even the good stuff like fluoride and certain minerals your body needs. If there’s a situation where the taste doesn’t really matter or otherwise gets masked, like in cooking, I’d recommend sticking with unfiltered or less-filtered water. (Other filtration systems are designed to specifically leave alone things like fluoride and good minerals.)
But man, the first time I tasted our Zero Water, it was like tasting water itself for the first time. It almost didn’t taste real. I don’t think I’ve ever had truly pure water before. It was borderline sweet, maybe because I’m conditioned to our water tasting a bit bitter so that’s what my brain expects. But it was very clean, otherwise tasting like absolutely nothing. And obviously with nothing dissolved in it, it’s totally clear as well.
I can’t really comment on filter longevity as we haven’t had to replace ours yet. That’s after about a month of use, though, filtering still some pretty hard water even after the fridge filter got through it. That said, I don’t think this is a system meant to filter *all* your water, and if you use it that way, you’ll probably go through filters pretty quick in this part of the country. (The pitcher comes with a brochure that shows how long you might expect a filter to last – in volume, not time – in different parts of the country.) It is best used as a filtration system just for straight drinking water and ice, and if you use it that way, the filters seem to last decently long enough. I did just test our water again a couple days ago and it was still at 0ppm, so our first filter is still working fine after a month.

wonderful filtration system except filters slow!
To begin, I love the taste of the water from this product! I drink lots of water and herbal tea and this water tastes amazing. I had used Zero Water years ago and loved it. I just tried the Brita system and was not happy with it. I tested my water from the Brita and it had 111 rating and my tap had a 117. My Zero Water had 000. So far the taste of the water is great. I always rely on product reviews abd videos. Are so helpful! I wanted to get the 32 cup unit but a reviewer showed how the unit leaked at the front corner and spicket. I bought the 22 cup since reviews were great. So far my container HAS NOT leaked anywhere. A complaint was the water was slow to filter through the filter. I found the openng hole is flush with the bottom of the container. If I pull up the white filter holder reservior and turn it sideways raising the filter up high allows the water to flow through really fast. My 22 cup filters 3 reserviors full in about 10 minutes or less. The water tastes so yummy. I love it. So far no leaks. I recommend it highly. The filters are a bit expensive but worth it. I recommend the 22 cup and wish I had the 32 cup unit. I also let the first filtration through the filter be discarded to clean the new filter. One true negative I have found that after a few filtration cycles the filter becomes slow and almost stops??? I have no idea why it stops filtering even with the filter raised off the bottom. Is a bit irritating.

Estoy muy impresionado por este filtro. Hice un montón de investigación con Brita, Avera y Ecofiltro y este fue el único que fue capaz de llevar el TDS a niveles muy bajos. De hecho, en mi primera prueba, el medidor TDS con dos medidores diferentes mostró Zero. Se filtra un poco lento, pero los resultados son perfectos. Me gustaría que esto fuera un poco más barato ya que es importado, pero teniendo en cuenta que mis perros lo necesitan para bajar su entrada de minerales debido a las piedras, vale la pena.

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