well made jug, filter has a bad taste, more convenient than bottles.
I am very fussy about the taste of water, and live on the Sunshine Coast of QLD where the town water is of variable quality. For the last few years I have taken to drinking only bottled water, but I am really guilty about the environmental impact of the bottles and the nuisance value of having to properly recycle them.
The Brita jug is well made and the indicator useful, but the water has a metal taste, probably the silver compound required to maintain the filter as sterile until use.
It takes about 20 fills of the jug to reduce the metal taste to acceptable levels, and even then it's still there. So the filter is half exhausted before it becomes useful, and costs 400l of water in the process.
I think this is more wasteful of water than buying bottles, and still has an inferior taste. But it is more convenient not having to dispose of the bottles properly.
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