Brita is a popular brand name company that supplies all sorts of water filtration technology to the masses. I have both a tap attachment and a special filtering jug that I can put in my fridge. I have had issues with both.
The issues I had with the tap attachment aren’t really the fault of Brita, except for one, while the jug is pretty much all on Brita.
The tap attachment seems easy enough. You attach it to your kitchen sink and when you want pure, filtered water, you flip a switch and it begins filtering. The first issue I had was attaching it to the tap. It isn’t all that easy for someone that can’t build anything other than computers. After a bit of messing about, I got it on the tap at our apartment. It worked well, except for one major shortcoming: no cold water. The water that the apartment dished out never got very cold, nor did it ever get very hot. It was always room temperature, and as such, it wasn’t very nice to drink.
Add to that the fact that the tap attachment is bulky and looks odd, I wasn’t too impressed with it. It was really the reason we bought their filter jug system. When we moved to our house, I thought about attaching it to our kitchen faucet, except that we got a fancy, designer faucet with a strange end, and so we aren’t able to hook it up.
Moving to the put it in the refrigerator system, and we have a simple container, where you fill the top of the pitcher, and it filters through to the bottom. Seems simple enough, so what could possibly be a downside?
Well, the system we bought doesn’t have any way to tell how old the filter is, or if it needs to be changed. We write it on a calendar, but its still all just a guessing game. We always have to remember to fill the container back up, something that the wife and I both seem to avoid by leaving half a glass of liquid inside the container. Yes, I know we are childish.
The biggest issue though is with the newer filters. They always seem to leave black specs in the top part where you pour in the water before it goes through the filter. While none of these reach my cup, at least as far as I have seen, it is still worrying and a little gross. I am not the only person to have this problem either and I don’t remember this ever happening with my parent’s Brita system.
Will I get back on the Brita bandwagon that so many people suggested in my post, “Juice, Water or Soft Drinks?” I most likely will as I do understand that increasing my intake of water, from its currently level, of next to nothing, to the recommended eight cups a day, should help with my appetite among other benefits.
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As you use the Brita, what will happen (or should anyway), is you’ll notice the water will taste “funny”, which is when you should change the filter.