PUR Faucet Water Filters Review

The Pur Faucet Water Filter is a fantastic alternative to buying bottled water.  Just think of all those plastic water bottles that -- if they don't get recycled -- end up in the landfill, where they will remain virtually forever.  Economically and environmentally, it is much better to get one reusable water bottle and refill it with your own filtered tap water. 

Pur filters provide clean-tasting water that is free of many of the chemicals (Chlorine, Benzene) added to it in water treatment facilities.  The carbon microfilter will remove microbial cysts and giardia, which can lead to gastrointestinal illnesses.  It reduces heavy metals in water such as mercury (which causes nerve damage) that seeps into water from the environment as a result of coal-burning power plants, and lead (which causes physical and mental development problems in children, kidney damage in adults) that can be absorbed by water from household plumbing.

The fawcet-mounted unit may be a bit bulky and sometimes seems in the way, and that is my one and only complaint about this product.  But that is a small price to pay for cleaner drinking water.  I think it is easier to use than any pitcher-filter system.  All you have to do is flip one switch to turn the filter on or off as desired.  The filter cartridges should be good for approximately 100 gallons of purified water, which makes this a superior alternative to buying bottled water.  When the cartridge clogs up, you just unscrew one end of the fawcet-mounted unit and insert a new filter cartridge.  It's pretty simple and quick.  One cartridge can keep thousands of those  plastic bottles out of the garbage and out of the landfills!