What About The Pur Plus Water Filter Pitcher?

Maybe you want a cheap way to replace bottled water and filter it yourself. The Brita is of course a choice.

Another popular option is the Pur Plus Water Filter Pitcher . These pitchers and dispensers are about as easy to use as anything you can get. The cost isn't bad either. But do they work?

The Pur water filter pitcher has a 2 stage filter that does several things well. For one, it gets out microbiological cysts (cryptosporidium and giardia), which the Brita doesn't. Since these filters include carbon in the elements they do a good job removing chlorine and improving taste. Taste is a strong point of Pur water.

Also the filters reduce harmful minerals like lead, cadmium, copper, mercury and zinc. Fluorine stays in, right or wrong.

The filters get out most pharmaceutical drugs too and quite a few agricultural chemicals as well.

If you have very hard water or lots of sediment in the water, the small elements will likely clog fairly quickly. But for many uses these work a long time. How long?

Well the suggested life of filters is about 40 gallons of water.

What's a replacement filter cost? At this writing a replacement filter is in the $7 range. That puts a gallon of water at about 18 cents, not counting the initial cost of the pitcher at about $25 or so. Of course the life of the filter could be less too.

The Pur Plus Water Filter Pitcher is cheap, easy to use and works quite well.