How is a twenty-something living in a rented space supposed to find a good water filter?  I don’t own a house or a condo, and I don’t plan on doing so anytime soon, so whole-house water filters or water softeners aren’t options.  What other choices does an apartment-dweller have?

First, if you’re lucky enough to have a new fridge (which I don’t), refrigeration filtration is perfect for filling up a cool glass of water.  Unfortunately, it isn’t convenient for the majority of kitchen activities – the process takes way too long!  When I did have one of these high tech fridges, I felt like I was waiting forever for a slow trickle of water to come out.  This seemed especially sluggish when I had to fill a big pot for cooking.  What can I say, I’m impatient (especially when it comes to my meals)!  I suppose this is a moot point though since my current fridge is ancient and the modern luxury of front-fridge filtration is not available to me.

Here’s another option – I could continue using a Brita or Pura filtration canister. Let’s be honest though, I always forget to change the filters on time, so my water tastes like chlorine more often than not.  Those tiny filters don’t last long at all…between the inconvenience of having to constantly change them and the cost of buying them every other month, they aren’t worth the effort.  Plus, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve spilled the whole canister after one of my roommates re-filled it unbeknownst to me…you’d think I’d learn to check the top before pouring, but no, I keep making the same mistake over and over.  Water everywhere.  This just will not do!

I am embarrassed to admit that for a brief amount of time I even bought bottled water in bulk to alleviate this problem.  How silly is that?  I paid a lot of money for extra waste and water that tasted like plastic.  On top of that, its use was limited – I wasn’t about to open a bottle of water to make a cup of coffee in the morning, nor was I going to use a bunch of bottles to make one pasta dish.  I put an end to the bottled water madness when I found out its usually just tap water anyway!  I needed a convenient and eco-friendly solution, and fast.

Enter LifeSource Water Systems' Countertop Water Filter.  This baby hooks right onto my sink.  I turn the faucet on, pull a knob, and filtered water comes right out the spout.  BRILLIANT. No more spilling Brita filters, no more buying bottled water!  Everyone in the apartment (there are four of us, so we’ve got a full house) constantly uses the Countertop so all of our food and drinks are made with filtered water. The unit has a nice big carbon filter in it, so it’s way more effective at catching all of the bad stuff.  It’s hassle-free, doesn’t cause any waste, there’s no salt added, and it removes chlorine and dirt.  On top of that, the filter only needs to be changed once a year!  I would recommend this to anyone who doesn’t own a home and wants to have eco-friendly filtered water readily available.

Life is good, friends. Especially when the water is good!