In-Home Water Filtration: No more bottles!

I agree, I recently re-did my kitchen and installed an under the sink filter from cuno. No more bottled water for me. I didn't realize how much i would use it. Not only for drinking water but for cooking and for making coffee too. I'm not crazy about the pitcher filters. I had to fill them to often and it just took up space in my refridgerator.

It is amazing how much trash and money you save by not buying bottled water. We need to here this again and again because it takes time to change a habit to the better. At the moment I use my son's boyscout water bottle, but as soon as it is broken (probably in the next 5 to 10 years) I am ready to buy a cool, designer eco bottle for 28 $. It is more fun to use something that is pretty and well made. If you have something beautiful, people (at least I) tend to take better care of it, use it more often and it lasts longer - so it needs to be manufactured only once. I also like the signal that these eco design status symbols send out - for me it means: there is somebody out there who also cares about the environment. Sometimes I can feel very "

Emily, I couldn't agree with you more. It's also crazy how people are patting themselves on the back for buying $60 grocery tote bags and $28 alumninum water bottles when a simple drinking glass or cheap tote bag would do. If they really wanted to help the environment, they'd buy the cheeper alternatives and send the $ difference to charity.