Posted on: September 5th, 2009 by Famous Phil

A week ago in WalMart while coming back to school, I had a long shopping list.  Of all the items on that long list, the bulkiest item is water.  Water is the most abundant molecule on Earth if I recall correctly from all the useless physics classes I took in college.  I wouldn’t say they were useless in the context that physics sucks and shouldn’t be studied but rather the way they were taught did me no good since I didn’t take anything away from them.

Regardless, every semester that I return to college, I end up carrying 10-15 cases (24 bottles / case) up the stairs to my room at UB.  As you can probably guess, that is a lot of work (=F*D ) and I’m the type of person that avoids a large physical work value in the end.  This year, returning to UB, we had to go into the electronics for a fan and continuing on we passed the water filters in the kitchenware section (I’m not sure if that’s what they call it).

When we passed the brita filters, my father mentioned to me that some people swear by them and would never consider another alternative to tap water like bottled water (my solution).  For there, that was about the extent of our looking and conversing about brita’s water filters.

Later that day at UB, I had to go to CVS for whatever reason (I believe I needed a power strip).  While I was there, I passed by the brita filters again.  This time, I thought to myself, its only $30 bucks and the filters are about $6 and last a month.  I also figured that for the cost of a filter, I would go through 5 cases of water or an entire month’s supply (thus I’d save money in the end).  I also figured that it is worth a try because if all else fails I could use it as a nice tea pitcher.

When I got the brita to my room and opened it, there were unusually long directions for it.  Unfortunately, it got off to a bad start, but my friend has gotten them working before so he gave me a very short version.  So after 15 minutes of soaking the filter in water and quickly rinsing the pitcher out afterwards, I was on my way.

To my surprise, the chlorinated water here at college acquired the taste of bottled water through the brita filter.  I didn’t really expect the brita to filter out the water that well.  Overall, I’m quite happy with it and it has curbed my usage of bottled water.  At the same time, it has helped me become a little more environmentally friendly.

Next time you need bottled water and don’t really need it bottled, try the Brita solution, you will be pleasantly surprised, I know I was!

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