Z-Pitcher Takes Almost Everything Out of Your Water
For those of you who aren’t lucky enough to live in an area with drinkable tap water, the ZeroWater Z-Pitcher might be worth a look. While other filters leave contaminants such as lead, antibiotics, and perchlorates in your water, the Z-Pitcher uses a filtration system that removes nearly everything.
The Z-Pitcher system uses five stages of filtration to remove suspended solids, chlorine, and metals like lead, mercury and chromium.
Each $40 unit is styrofoam and BPA-free and uses 95% recycled materials. ZeroWater is also the first company to offer a recycling program for its filters (both the plastic cartridge and internal resins).
If you want to go the extra mile for water purity, ZeroWater also sells a TDS (total dissolved solids) meter that evaluates the purity of bottled, filtered, tap, and well water. I’d recommend buying the meter in conjunction with the filter unless you have a masochistic need to know just how filthy your water is before drinking it.
Photo Credit: ZeroWater
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November 20th, 2008 at 2:18 am
Sooo… it’s a Britta water filter with another brand name on it? What exactly makes this filter so much better than the Britta? I’m sorry, but this seems more like a product pitch than a newsworthy post.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
@Sebastian – I have no ties to ZeroWater, I just thought this was an interesting alternative to other water filters. The Z-Pitcher actually is much more effective than the Brita filter – NYC water passed through the Z-Pitcher had a TDS of 0 (lowest possible amount of contaminants), while the same water passed through a Brita had a TDS of 30.
November 20th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
This is an excellent alternative to buying buying bottled water, especially when you consider their recycling program.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Another HUGE difference is that that ZeroWater offers recycling of the cartridges, something I have actually written to Britta asking them to implement because it is so wasteful to toss out the filter cartridge every two months when it’s just the filtration material inside it that needs changing. Thanks for the article, I am going to switch from my Britta pitcher just for the recycling aspect!
January 6th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Hmm… my local department store has a large Britta fitler recycling point… so Britta do recyle. At least in the UK.