Filter water vs. bottled water. Although both filtered water and bottled water can provide healthier, better-tasting water, the cost-effectiveness and smaller environmental impact of filtered water beats out bottled water at every turn.

While Brita filters provide the taste of moderately filtered water, you would have to accept the fact that an excessive amount of bacteria would be contaminating your water and could become a threat to your body once consumed. The good news is that there is always a better way!

Nevertheless most of the taste improvement comes from the activated carbon, which via adsorption removes chlorine compounds, organic molecules and a whole range of aromatic compounds. That makes a big difference on taste. Even better are filters that mineralize the water with magnesium or dolomite.

Brita filters can also become traps for bacteria if they are not changed frequently, and brita filters are not fine enough to block many of the common disease causing organisms so they are not actually a way to make water safer.

It doesn't remove everything that's unsafe for water, like lead, asbestos, or pathogenic bacteria. It mainly filters out chlorine, which is what usually makes some water taste or smell weird. It also removes Class VI particulates, which are sediments over 50 microns in size.

Benefits of Filtered Water Over Bottled Water Home water purification is by far the most economical, most convenient and most effective way of producing high quality, healthy water. The facts are clear: Home water filtration offers better quality water than bottled water.

For example, according to Brita, their pitcher lids and filter housings are made out of polypropylene plastic, the reservoirs and pitchers are made from either NAS (a styrene based plastic) or SAN (styrene acrylonitrile), and all are tested by the NSF for material safety (12).

Your BRITA water filter bottle is designed for use only with water tested as safe to drink according to legal regulations, such as mains treated tap water.

Brita surpasses Pur in overall water taste, filter lifespan, filter replacement cost, and pitcher options. However, the whole point of a water filter pitcher is to actually remove contaminants, and the Pur filters reduce and remove more chemicals from the water than the Brita pitchers do.

Faucet Filters As water passes through the filter, the nonwoven element reduces sediment, while the carbon block traps smaller contaminants. * Brita® faucet filters reduce lead, chlorine, asbestos, benzene, particulates and other contaminants.

A BRITA water filter can reduce mains water's:

• carbonate hardness/limescale (calcium and magnesium ions)
• free and bound chlorine (if present)
• lead and copper.

The BRITA MAXTRA+ water filter provides up to four weeks and 100 litres of freshly filtered water. Its ion exchange resin reduces both carbonate hardness (limescale) and metals such as copper and lead. The activated carbon reduces substances that can impair taste, such as chlorine and chlorine compounds.