I had a chance recently to try out the Pure Water 2Go water bottles, and I was surprised by what I found. It’s been a long time since I’ve regularly consumed unfiltered tap water; usually I buy carbonated bottled water by H2Oh!, largely because it contains no sweetners or sugar, yet has that carbonated fizz that makes it fun to drink. It also tastes a lot cleaner than regular tap water in the Twin Cities, MN, where I live.
A few year ago, I did drink more water, back when I had a sink installed with a PUR water filter right over the faucet. But now, as I am starting to work out more, I’ve been needing something I can take with me over to the workout room in my apartment facility. That’s where I expect to use this product the most; to keep myself hydrated as I work out.
The bottle came in a well-cushioned cardboard box and is of nice, durable plastic construction; there’s nothing flimsy about it, which is nice and helps me think it’ll last a while. The water bottle filter included with this system is a Level 2 water filter that relies on charcoal-based construction.
Just like my old PUR water faucet filter, the Pure Water 2Go water bottle promises to reduce and filter out tons of contaminant types, including offensive taste and odor, chlorine, salt, cryptosporidium, giarda, volatile organic compounds, polychlorinated biphenyls, trihalomethanes, agricultural synthetic organic compounds, detergents, pesticides, DDT, aluminum, asbestos, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, and mercury, just to name a few.
That impressed me long ago about my PUR system and it impresses me now with this water bottle, because even the trace amounts of such things that can show up in or seep into tap water can, even if it’s not enough to harm you, certainly ruin the taste. Heck, most water travels through old copper pipes; just filtering that out can improve the taste of water incredibly.
And while environmentalists tend to hate plastic, if it’s a choice between one water bottle that filters the water you drink regularly, or using 2-3 “disposable/recyclable” bottles of store-bought water, I think a Pure Water 2GO water bottle is the less offensive option.
What I like is the longevity of the filters. Each Level 2 filter is supposed to be able to last around three months or 80 gallons of water, 16 ounces of water at a time. And I looked it up, and a packet of two filters is only another $13 or so on the company’s Web site, so for what I could probably stretch out to a full year’s worth of filtered water, this is financially a lot cheaper that getting a bunch of store-bought bottled water.
About the only complaint I have in my early use of the water bottle is that, thanks to the filter, the water comes out a bit slower than it does from an unfiltered water bottle. It’s a minor inconvenience, but an inconvenience nevertheless. Other than that, it does produce clean-tasting water, which is what I was looking for from it. I expect to keep a full bottle in the fridge, chilling, whenever I’m not actually drinking from it. Hopefully, it can spur me to drink enough water to help my diet. Sure, it’s not carbonated so I doubt I’ll give up my H2Oh!, but it’s better than unfiltered tap water by a measure!
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