LifeStraw Home Water Pitcher, 7-Cup, White, Glass with Silicone Base, White, for Everyday Protection Against Bacteria, Parasites, Microplastics, Lead, Mercury, PFAS and a Variety of Chemicals

If you want the best water ever, buy this! NOT to mention it even blocks out parasites, guardians, which is great if you have well water. Coffee has never tasted so good. When the filter is new, it understandably takes longer for the first 3 pitchers. Then it is fast. Very happy with this product

Best tasting water I have had in a long time!

First, I purchased this because I wanted some essential minerals left in the water. I currently use the Zero pitcher which takes everything out. My tap water has a ppm of 200 - 300 and usually comes out the faucet with a brown tint. This product, my water is 150ish ppm. According to their customer service:Comparison with Zerowater:Zerowater Filters: Zerowater uses a different approach, often involving more comprehensive ion exchange and deionization processes, which remove nearly all dissolved substances, including beneficial minerals.Essential Minerals: Our filters are designed to leave these essential minerals in the water, recognizing their importance for health and flavor.Right now the water is such a slow trickle from the filtration area to the pitcher that it takes about 3 hours to fill the jug, I kid you not. I assume that as the filter gets more use it will start to flow like the video on their website. My Zero pitcher fills in about 10 minutes.I think when I pour the water into the larger container, I'll just mix the two pitchers together. I'm not a big return person, so I have to live with it. Otherwise, I'd return it and probably not recommend it. It also took weeks for delivery. I didn't realize the item isn't stocked at Amazon and ships from the mfg.

The water tastes great and I love glass pitcher. Sure, it filters slowly, but that’s not a problem if you:Fill a glass of water, then immediately top off the pitcher with new sink water, which is super easy with the flap at the top—you don’t need to open anything, running water pushes open the lid.I never have an issue with it being empty.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:I wanted a medium sizedpitcher to filter nano plastics out of our tap water. That is what this product alleges, and I'm hoping it is correct. It is easy to use even though filling through the filter is not a quick operation.

Absolutely love this water pitcher

Well... I bought this pitcher because our city recently upped the amount of "disinfectant" it's putting into the tap water and even filtered through our PUR faucet mount filters, it was horrible to drink - like burning the back of my mouth horrible. (I'm super sensitive to this sort of thing - for reference I can't stand bottled water because it tastes like plastic to me, so take these comments with a grain of salt.) I did some research and discovered that our city uses chloramine instead of just chlorine - it's a combination of chlorine and ammonia and it's much more difficult to filter out. Apparently it needs much more time in contact with the carbon to get the stuff out, and since you can't run water through a faucet mount filter more than once, I got this pitcher to try to to make the filtered tap water palatable.So the way we're using this is that I take water filtered through the PUR filter and run it through this pitcher. If I run it through once, I can still taste the disinfectant a bit, but if I run it through twice it tastes clean. That may say more about chloramine and my sensitivity to it than it does about this pitcher though.The comments about the slowness of this thing are true. It has gotten a bit better now that I've run about a dozen cycles through it, but it still takes 15-20 minutes to filter one batch - one batch is NOT a full pitcher, it's more like 16 ounces. I mean, I guess the micro-filter makes it slow, so I'm willing to put up with that, but it's making it really difficult to filter enough water to cook. Plus, we have a cat with kidney disease, and he wasn't liking the horrible tasting water either, so we have to filter water to keep his water dishes full.I haven't managed to get the thing very full before we needed to use the water, and I actually don't plan to because here's the deal - while the pitcher itself is glass, the filter housing thing in the middle is plastic - so if you fill it with more than 16-20 ounces of water, your water is still going to be sitting in contact with plastic! I mean it's great that the filter removes micro-plastics, but I'm not sure what good it does if the water is just going to sit in contact with more plastic! I guess I foolishly assumed that the filter was housed in glass - wrong! This seems like a major design flaw for something that's marketed as a way to remove micro-plastics.And the final problem is that the thing is 11.5 inches tall, and the tallest our refrigerator shelves can accommodate is 11 inches. It won't fit in the door either - it's 6 inches in diameter at the bottom which is about half an inch too big to fit in the door. We might be able to re-arrange the shelves, but I'm not sure it's worth it as I think we'll probably be investigating other types of filtration/purification systems.Sooo... it works, I guess. At least I've found a way to make palatable water for the time being, but the many hassles involved with using this thing mean that it's unlikely to be a permanent solution. Or maybe the city will turn down the level of disinfectant soon and it will all be a moot point!

I love my Lifestraw. The filtered water tastes great. I was looking for a glass alternative to the standard Brita Plastic pitcher and I found Lifestraw. It does take a wee bit of time to filter but I am patient and not in a hurry. Great way to use this is to always put water in it to get it full when you just happen to walk into the kitchen. That way you will always have filtered water on hand.