filtered water - an unrealistic dream?

Advantages: easy to use
Disadvantages: hasn't improved the taste of our tea

...We live in a hard water area in Bristol and are always having problems with limescale - we've been through many kettles in the last few years. My husband and I are used to the taste of the water now, so we don't really notice it, but when we have visitors they often complain about the drinks we serve. So, we were thrilled when my parents bought us a Brita Elemaris Cool Water Filter jug for Christmas along with a refill pack of 3 MAXTRA cartridges. Apparently they were fed up of the strange taste of our tea! Brita make the following claims - "You will enjoy cleaner, clearer, great tasting water" and "protects your domestic appliances against limescale build up". "The BRITA MAXTRA cartridge reduces substances like chlorine, limescale..., aluminium, heavy metals... and certain pesticides as well as organic impurities." Excellent...

gef18 26.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Brita Elemaris Cool Water Filter

Brita Elemaris water filter jug

Advantages: The water tastes better than previous filters, it's much easier to fill and use.
Disadvantages: Still takes quite a bit of cleaning but again, a step up from the original jugs

...Having owned and used a Brita water filter on a regular basis for several years, I couldn't resist purchasing the Elemaris when I saw it on offer at a bargain price on the shelves of our local Asda. My original filter jug was full of water, so the first thing I did on unpacking the Elemaris was to pour a glassful from each jug to compare them. I was pleased to observe that the water in the glass poured from the Elemaris appeared cleaner and much clearer than that from my old faithful. On tasting both samples, the one poured from the Elemaris won hands down - it tasted much fresher than the drink from the other jug. Our tapwater has quite a nasty taste when unfiltered but the Elemaris removed this. The Elemaris is much easier to fill than the earlier models and the filter does it's work much more quickly - my first jug took...

christinepalytte 10.09.2008 · Read review
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To Get Me to Drink Water...

Advantages: Better tasting water
Disadvantages: none

...the morning about half-an-hour before breakfast, would ensure good health and protection from most diseases. Whether this is true or not, I cannot say, but being aware that I hardly ever drank water unless flavoured by tea or coffee, it would be good for me to try. But?our tap water tasted foul, and I could hardly drink it on an empty stomach without gagging. My wife, who only drinks water, had been drinking bottled water for years, but I didn?t like that much either, because to me it tasted of plastic. So, trying to encourage me to get the water-drinking habit, she bought glass bottles but I still didn?t like it. She said that I was being over-sensitive and as a last resort, bought me a Brita Water filter. Preparing the Britta Water Filter for Use It wasn?t just a matter of plugging in the filter-cartridge into the jug and filling it...

derek-j-a 11.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Brita Mistral Water Filter

Brita Water Filter

Advantages: no more descaling
Disadvantages: none

...We live in a hard water area and before we purchased our Brita Water Filter we were having to de-scale our kettle every 6 weeks, alse we used to get horrible "scum" on the surface of out tea and coffee. Since buying our filter the element in our kettle has remained lyme-scale free and this is after 3 months. We also use the filtered water in our steam iron which has stopped the lymescale building up in there to. It is very simple to use...just fill from the cold tap direct and the water will pass through the filter cartridge into the jug....once this process has taken place the water is ready to be poored into your kettle or iron. We would not be without our filter jug now as out hot drinks taste alot better and i am sure that the lack of lymescale must give the kettle and iron and longer lifespan. Catridges should be...

sveale 14.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of Brita Fjord Water Filter

The Water filter

Advantages: Water tastes better.
Disadvantages: Filters can be expensive to keep replacing.

...My opinion is about a boots water cooler. This is a product that I think that every household should have. I bought one of these recently, they have been advertised a lot on television, so I thought that it would be a good idea. On hot days this product is a star, you put it in the fridge and nicely chilled water comes out. I don't like the taste of tap water when it has that strong chlorine taste on rare occasions. I tried the water on its own and it tasted lovely. It was really refreshing and knowing that the water is good for you is a bonus because all of the bad chemicals (e.g. chlorine) are taken out through the filter. My only complaint about an amazing product such as this one is that the filters can be expensive to keep replacing, and there is nothing wrong with tap water anyway (or so I have been told). This...

Sweetiesarahjane 01.07.2001 · Read review
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Review of Boots Own Water Filter

Pure Glacial Waters from a Fjord in my Fridge

Advantages: Great design, excellent filtered water, reasonably priced
Disadvantages: None.

...I honestly never thought I needed a water filter in my life, let alone that I'd grow to find it indispensible but in the case of my Brita Fjord Cool filter jug, that's exactly what's happened. I bought it on a whim as it was reduced to £10 in Woolworths and I decided to treat myself to something I considered at the time to be frivolous yet practical. There were a few Brita filter jugs on offer at the same price and I chose the Fjord Cool model simply because it looked a bit sleeker and sexier than the others available. As soon as I got home, I quickly decided to test out my new 'gadget.' On this occasion, I did read the instructions which included handy diagrams to show you how to insert the filter cartridge into the jug. This filter jug incidentally takes the Brita Maxtra cartridges. It comes supplied with one but I bought...

nicolemorgan 15.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Brita Fjord Water Filter

Water, water everywhere

Advantages: Improves your health
Disadvantages: Filter cartridge runs out every 4-5 weeks

...I read some time ago that the water Londoners now drink has passed through people at least 12 times. I also heard that someone put a coin into a glass of water from our flat tap water and the coin turned black. A few years ago there was the case in Camelford where tons of aluminium sulphate was dropped into the water supply causing consumers’ hair to turn green. A few months later a cluster of leukaemia cases was reported in local schools. Even bottled mineral or spring water is not safe to drink as the bottles have been found to contain animal faeces. So I decided to invest in a Brita household water filter. It is quite cheap at £15. The filter is reasonably easy to assemble. First you give all the parts a good wash. The filter cartridge is soaked for 20 minutes in water. The date when the cartridge expires is then set. Each...

mrpaella 12.01.2001 (21.08.2001) · Read review
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Review of Brita Fjord Water Filter

  Water Way to Drink

Advantages: Improves water taste and quality
Disadvantages: None

...neighbour had passed the night before, I think not. Of course nature works wonders, as the water passes through the ground it is filtered by the very ground it passes through, and it can take up to sixty years before it see?s the light of day again so its unlikely your going to get your own back if you pardon the pun. The water that you get from your tap is vastly different from the water that bubbles from the earth, what you get is another chemical cocktail, designed to improve our teeth and health, but if your tap water is anything like the tap water here on Tyneside it is disgusting at best for for most of the time and at the worst vile even flavouring drinks such as tea. What can we do to improve it, I?ll tell you buy a water filter, for a few pounds and see and taste the difference straight away. It?s true at least in my case you...

Bigbaz 06.10.2002 · Read review
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Review of Brita Fjord Water Filter

Buying mineral water is a mug's game!

Advantages: Affordable, delicious drinking water with no hardness
Disadvantages: cartridges can be a little expensive

..., turns into a muddy brown substance with large chunks of unappetizing lime-scale floating about in it like titanic-sinking icebergs, coffee does the same thing. The result of this phenomenon is that everybody in Leicester weighs, on average, three times as much as other citizens as a result of the vast slabs of white stuff that are clogging-up their internal organs. Enter the Brita Fjord water filter, the only thing standing between Leicester and the most chronic case of dandruff / petrification in the known world. Description: The filter is divided into four parts; these being the jug, funnel, lid and filter cartridge. The jug has a total capacity of 2.6 litres, meaning that it can easily handle enough water to cater for an entire tea party without the need for refilling. The funnel fits inside the jug and holds the nasty, dirty...

jm160 02.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Brita Fjord Water Filter

water, water everywhere...

Advantages: dramatic improvement to the taste of water, useful in hot drinks, practical design of the Brita Fjord
Disadvantages: none

......and not a drop to drink! Well, that was the situation in my flat until I purchased a Brita water filter. The tap water was cloudy, almost opaque when it had settled in a glass, and was basically undrinkable - even just to swallow a tablet with. It smelt quite chlorinated, and I was fed up of spending so much money on bottled water, and lugging huge bottles back from the shops. So I finally decided to do something about it, and brought a water filter. I purchased mine from Argos, it was £18.75, and included one free cartridge, so in addition to this, I bought a pack of 4 cartridges, for £13.99. The water filter made a very impressive difference to the taste of my tap water - I really had not imagined it could have made it so much better. The filter is designed to reduce chlorine, and also metals such as lead, copper...

weebagpuss 19.03.2001 · Read review
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