Aquagear Water Filter Pitcher – Lead, Chlorine, PFOA/PFOS, Microplastics Filter, 10 Cup, 120 Gallon Filter Life - Filter Media Made in USA

It's been top rated for removing microplastics and other unpleasant things. (Please do your own research.) I have purchased two of them.Water filters through faster than my former brand, the plastic pitcher is sturdy. It fits well in my refrigerator. The filter is easy to install. And they last for a long time.

Really though! I bought mine in 2018 and have been using it ever since. I recently realized that there was a lifetime warranty and I reached out to the company about some damage that had occurred to my lid and they had a new one at my house in about 2 days!In addition to the amazing warranty, they also have a FREE water filter recycling program! If you’re very mindful about your waste like I am it probably drives you nuts that so many water filters have to go in the trash. Well, not anymore! You just email them with your address and the number of filters that you want to recycle and they send you a return label. You just package it up in the packaging that your new filter came in and send it off!And lastly, but also super important, how does it work? Well since I have been using it for so long I recently decided to check and see if it was still performing well against newer models on the market. I was able to access a report done by Consumer Reports that tester Aquagear against many others on the market and it performed very well! In fact Consumer Reports said that it was their #1 pick for removing microplastics, which is super important to me! While it didn’t perform the best on certain tests, when taken overall it still came out amazing since the highest performers on one test might have been the lowest on another or some other filters even added contaminants to the water!Needless to say I am sticking with Aquagear. The water tastes great, it filters fast, the filters last for 6 months, and with the independent testing and life time warranty I can feel confident that my water is clean and I won’t have to buy a new pitcher again!

I've used Aquagear pitchers for several years. Aquagear makes tap water taste better than the bottled water and other water filter pitchers that I have tried. This pitcher also removes forever chemicals and microplastics as well as a long list of other substances. There is a list on their web site.

We’ve been using this water pitcher for four years now. The water tastes great. It makes a difference when I make coffee with it. I wish the filters were a little cheaper.

I'm giving this five stars because it's the only product of its kind on the market, and it does its main task, filtering water, well. I'll take the company at their word that it removes things other filters don't, and removes a higher percentage of the things that other filters do.The water it produces is delicious and, according to my subjective datapoint of 1, tastes better than competing filters.Now for the criticism, with roughly the most important first.- As others have stated, the water filters veeeery slowly. For the first dozen pitchers or so it was pretty slow, but acceptable. Since then, it takes something like 2 hours for all the water to filter through. I did do the initial flushing before putting in the filter. I haven't yet tried doing the re-flushing that the company suggests to make the filter work faster. Even if it works, I'm not sure if I'm going to be happy doing this once a week for the rest of my life.- Related to above: the company's guideline for when to change the filter is when water flows through it too slowly. So I foresee in my future many phases of trial and error and wondering if I need to flush more or if the filter is really truly done.- Related to above: it's weird to me that flushing can solve this problem. Shouldn't running more water through the filter just build up more filtered material? Or, if it's because the pressure from the tap forces things through, isn't that bad? Doesn't that mean that contaminants are being forced through when they shouldn't be? I wrote to support asking this and they said "The flushing process helps push residual carbon from the manufacturing process out of the filter if there is any." That doesn't really fully answer the questions, but I'll take the company at their word that all is well. I hope that they expand their documentation on this matter in the future.- If you tilt the pitcher too far while pouring, the water completely fills up the spout, which doesn't allow air to come back into the pitcher, making the water come out in spurts or even almost completely stop. When the pitcher is full, you can get around this by not tiling it so far. There's also been a scenario where I couldn't find any angle at all that worked. I think it was when there was water in the upper filtering area and also in the lower area, I'm not sure. I'll probably eventually drill a small hole in the back of the pitcher to get around this problem. If I do I'll report back and post a photo.- If you pour the pitcher while there is water in the bottom part and water in the top part, water can leak out from the top part. Other pitchers have this problem as well, and I've been dealing with it for 2 decades. I'm pretty sure it's not a huge engineering challenge to work around this, I don't know why no one has done it yet.- The little auto-closing circular flap which closes the fill hole looks nice and is cleverly designed... but has problems. The first is that a ring of pink mold(?) has grown around the edge of it in only two weeks. The second is that it's difficult to see how far the water has been filled up. It's possible, but you need pretty good lighting and you have to be ready for it to sneak up on you.- The little auto-closing flap on the spout can get stuck in either the closed or open position.- To remove the filtering assembly, you have to stick your finger in the spout area, which means you have to wash your hands first, which adds time and effort to the process of pouring water. First-world problem for sure, but for something I have to do 2 or 3 times a day, I really wish it had a better design.What I have done to get around most of these problems is to use this pitcher to fill up other pitches of water. I happened to have two of these around: Takeya Airtight Pitcher, 2-Quart, Black and they suit my purpose well. I let the Aquagear take its time filtering and use the pre-filtered water from those pitchers, and then fill them up when the Aquagear is ready. Of course, whenever I do this, I have to completely remove the filtering assembly.Good job Aquagear on your V1 and for getting this needed product to market! Now get to work on the V2...