The Food and Drug Administration has supplied a comprhensive guide for U.S. consumers, "Bottled Water: Better Than the Tap?". In it they explain how bottled water is regulated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). This is because bottled water is transported over state lines. Under this Act, the Agency does inspect bottling plants. They do not inspect or regulate the source of the water. This is the inherent flaw in bottled water. With wide distribution and multiple sources of the water supplied to the bottling plants, there is no standard, and moreover, no disclosure from suppliers of bottled water, just where it comes from. Even the FDA in this article agrees that tap water is just as safe. They also say that as for taste and odor, they recommend you filter at home, just as the bottled water manufacturers do at the bottling plants.

Forgive me for a bit of self-promotion. It seems to me that the one of the most thoughtful gifts you can give anyone on your list this holiday season, would be a water filter. As a reminder, our Model 2400 supplies 5000 gallons, maintenance free, or five years worth of pure tasting and odor free drinking water, at a cost of just $39.95. This is also suitable for those of you who have wells, as long as your source has been tested and showed that the only problem was taste and odor.

Another wonderful gift, if there is a woman on your shopping list, would be one of our wonderful shower filters, which remove chorine, which takes the nutrients from their hair, and dries their skin. Just starting at $34.95 for at least a eighteen months of much more manageable hair and softer skin.

Water filters, the gift that truly keeps on giving.

Deception can take many forms. One look at the Aquafina website and you will discover their deception though omission. Yes they explain in a very beautifully done demonstration how they use reverse osmosis to purify their water. The same system, by the way, you can purchase from waterfilters-r-us, model P3500ro, for the bargain price of $199.95. What Aquafina fails to tell us is exactly where they source the water to input into the reverse osmosis system. At least if you buy ours, you will know where yours comes from. What is Aquafina hiding? I bet we all would be surprised and very nervous about their product.

We have have always said the the best reason to filter your drinking water is to improve the taste and odor of it. Here is another surprising one. The Kansas City Star reports "Household chemicals contaminate drinking water, testing shows". Well once you read it, you will agree that the best thing the article says is that the contaminants found were trace amounts so small as not to create a risk to the populace. Still, it also could not hurt to use one of our maintenance free water filters, each featuring three micron filters. Just a thought.

I thought after years in this water filter business, I had heard it all, at least until now. The BBC reported that diluted amounts of Prozac has been detected in the drinking water accross the Pond. Fortunately they do say it was diluted amounts and did not pose a real threat to the British populace. What the article made me think about was that here at waterfilters-r-us.com, we offer one replaceable cartridge which removes vertually any contaminent to drinking water imaginable, except arsenic, our Model # P2901rc. Very honestly, we never considered the need to filter out Prozac or any drug for that matter. You never really know do you?

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The pristine website of Evian Bottled Water describes in beautiful prose, just how their water starts as rain water in the Alps. This is most definately a fairytale. They admit to doing a huge business all over the world and that their sources of water match up with those from the Alps. Other than telling us that, they make no mention of where these other sources are. Well I for one think their beautiful website is just that and nothing more. There muliple sources of water are as great a mystery as any other bottled water supplier. Consumers beware.

We all would agree that most consumers think faucet mount water filters are the most efficient way to filter their water. Well a replacement cartridge for a PUR faucet mount water filter, Model # RF-4050, capable of a paltry 100 gallons capicity, and diconted for on line sale, is $23.98. Once again, if you are interested in efficiently improving the taste and odor of your tap water, our Model 2400with a 5,000 gallon capacity, will last for five years, and cost only $39.95. This may explain why we do not carry a faucet mount water filter here; they are simply inefficient and too expensive to operate.

Well here is proof that our model 2400 mantainence free water filteris far cheper than the ever popular Brita pitchers. Three Brita replacement filters at Amazon.com sell for $19.99. Each will filter 35 gallons of water improving the taste and odor. This means that six Brita filters would filter 210 gallons of water and cost $39.98. For $39.95, you can buy our model 2400, and improve the taste and odor of the water for 5000 gallons, and never have to change the cartridge. Need I say more?

It seems this brand "Sere Aqua Filtered Drinking water" was found to be bad in Ghana. To me this simply is further proof that bad bottled water is not just confined to the U.S. but reaches all over the world. No surprise here.

I was searching Dasani on google and came upon this statement by this division of Coca-Cola Company, concerning the voluntarary withdrawl of Dasani in the UK. It says "the withdrawal is a precautionary measure". You can read it and judge for yourself. To me it sounds like a screw up. Researching this a bit further I found this article published just when the withdrawal occurred. It is called
"Coca - Cola Admits That Dasani is Nothing But Tap Water" Seems there is more to this withdrawl than Dasani wishes to admit.

Hey they even say they tested the water at Poland Springs, and offer this chart on their webpage.






I thought the idea of bottle water was to eliminate all chlorine and dissovled solids? That is what our maintenance free water filters do. For that matter it is very apparent from this chart, that all our water filters do a much better job of supplying safe, clear water to you. Of course this is what I have been consistantly saying all along.

Well, if you really want to know, you may be sorry you asked. Just go to the homepage of Poland Spring Water Just go to "Our Natural Spring Water" and you will learn that "What it means to be from Maine" is maintaining 75 sites accross the country. A bit confusing? Here's more. They play an active role in the International Bottled Water Association. Now, that should make every consumer really comfortable with drinking their product. They are the industry marketing arm that protects and certifies the quality of the water; in 75 sites for just Poland Springs alone, not to mention all the other members. I open this site by telling you just why water quality experts agree, that properly filtered tap water is much safer and held to a much higher standard than any bottled water brand even if it has the nerve to state "What it means to be from Maine", and show an idyllic picture of a wooded natural spring on its bottles.

Inside the water filter industry, it is well known that all water filters that are certified by NSF International, are tested to double there published capacity. To you the consumer, that means that when those Led diode displays turn red on a water filter, indicating to change your cartridge, depending on your water quality, you do not have to act all that fast. Now, don't get me wrong, there is a reason for changing filters when indicated, and that reason is safety. All I am saying here is that there is no need to panic and to stop using the filter immediately. By the way, it is for this reason that we state that our model cbtas, replacement filter for the removal of arsenic, which has a 600 gallon capacity is still good for one year usage by a family of four, depending on water quality.

I came accross this most comprehensive article concerning the quality of bottled water, compiled by the Natural Resources Defense Council(NRDC) It is titled Bottled Water Pure Drink or Pure Hype? Well, with that title, and my belief that properly filtered tap water is far superior to any bottled water brand, you can understand why I liked this article. I guess I am not the only voice which does not think much of this huge bottled water business. Let me know what you think.