r/WaterFilters

My wife is african and when she washes her hair she notices the water is quitte hard with kalk, we are now thinking of buying another showerhead with a filter or something like that. do you guys have experience with that , what's your idea of which brand and prices or maybe other solutions ?

Central Coast based on acerage that is very dusty but on town water and wanting a full house filtration system (not RO). Have been quoted $4k (water analyitics) and up to 6K (complete home filtration) Wanting it as have high scale build up on taps and showers so know i need a softener as well. Also kids have excema, constant sore stomachs, brown water frequently and high smelling water. Larger family of 6+ people. I have tried to research but every company seems to have their 'marketing points'. Im looking for a universal cartridge (big blue) and im thinking a 3 cylinder is what I need as replacements will be up to $300 annually. I feel like im going round in circles on brands as some also seem way to cheap and I dont want to have to replace in a few years. Looking for tried and tested brands as this is a big investment for us. Thankyou!

as I continue to research the countertop water filter my husband and I will be going with, I’m leaning towards aquatru. on social media, I keep seeing people say, even when they remineralize the water, like with trace minerals, they had negative experiences! this included brain fog, body aches, gi upset, etc. I do have a chronic illness which causes chronic nausea either way lol but I just wanted to see in anyone else had poor experiences!

I live in a rented apartment in an area with hard water and want to use a RO water filtration system for drinking water. I looked at a couple of options for OTC and under sink. Based on the features i would like to have an undersink system that doesnt require manual refill and emptying and also saves the kitchen counter space. However since i live in a rented apartment, i am not sure if i will be allowed to make changes to existing plumbing to install the under sink system. I do have a workaround to replace the existing faucet with a new 3 way faucet that will include an outlet for filtered water and will not require any drilling. Has anybody done this in their apartments ?

Our municipal water has been testing very very high for PFAS (many times higher than EPA limit).

So, we need a Reverse Osmosis system.

Almost exactly 1 year ago, I bought a Waterdrop G5P500 under sink RO filter for $250.

We were super happy with it. We changed the CF filter at 6 months, as instructed.

But when we replaced it again a few days ago, suddenly, it will not work at all.

The system itself and all replacement filters were purchased directly from Waterdrop. We followed all of their instructions to a T, including all of the steps their AI system gave us for troubleshooting. My husband completely disconnected it from all the lines, triple checked every single line and connection, and everything looks fine.

We are CERTAIN that the new filter they sent us must have been faulty and caused the problem, since the system was working fine literally the morning before we changed the filter, then as soon as we did, it won't work. We even tried putting the old filter back in and it still doesn't work. We have unplugged it and reset it countless times.

I feel pretty certain that something inside the new filter must have gotten into either the RO filter or somewhere else in the unit when we tried to run it, and now the whole thing is ruined.

When we try to turn it on now, it rumbles and shakes loudly (which it never did before), and NO WATER comes out of the faucet. Again, all lines were checked and it was working just fine before replacing filter.

Obviously, Waterdrop customer service is completely nonexistent.

So at this point, our only real option seems to be to find a brand new filtration system.

We are looking for:

1. Under sink

2. Tankless

3. Reverse osmosis

4. A company that actually has at least sort of decent customer service and will try to rectify problems if they send us a faulty product.

5. Initial cost under $550

Does this exist? For the record, I searched through this sub reddit for answers first, but so far, most of recommendations I've seen don't fit all 5 criteria above.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

I've been wanting to get a filtered water bottle there's been a long time. I wanted to feel safer drinking water daily without paranoia of it being with tap metals, chlorine, etc...

Initially I was thinking about Larq Purevis 2, but i've heard some negative comments about it and don't know what to think about that purchase yet.

Then, I wanted to get a Clearly Filtered water bottle, but I'm european and the shipping was +100€, which is wild (so it's preferable that it's an european brand or that it has warehouses at europe).

I found LifeStraw Go water bottle, but I wanted to hear opinions.

My budget is 200€ max, but you can recommend any if you think it solves my problem.

hello everyone! 

after much research,  my husband and I will be getting a countertop water filtration system but we’re torn. aquatru removed the contaminants that fit our water quality report, the main one is arsenic and fluoride. we are drawn to boroux and even though we can buy the fluoride filter, it does not remove arsenic. boroux is much bigger but not sure if the size is actually worth it when aquatru seems like the best option 😅 

I’ve seen reverse osmosis is not necessary but were fine adding the trace minerals to remineralize the water! is it worth just getting boroux since it’s bigger in size? 

for background, we usually buy water bottles and for health/sustainability reasons we are wanting to switch to just filtering our tap water for drinking/cooking etc! 

I live in WA state, our tap water normally comes out with about a 35 TDS reading, which the filter takes down to 0. I haven't replaced it in a year and it's still reading ) -- but would there be any kind of build-up or something within the filter itself that I should be concerned about?