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I'm Wirecutter's water-quality expert. I don't filter my water
Readers routinely come to me asking my advice on water filtration. I always tell them the same thing: I don’t filter my water because I’ve had it tested.
Pitcher, under-sink, faucet-mount, whole-home, and reverse-osmosis filters all have at least one “genetic flaw,” be it high cost, limited capability, low flow, inefficiency, unreliability, or expensive upkeep. The Brita Elite pitcher filter is NSF/ANSI-certified for PFOA and PFOS, two of the most common forever chemicals; microplastics; lead, mercury, and cadmium; and several so-called emerging compounds that may be found in drinking water, including some pharmaceuticals. First wildfires, then the Flint and Newark lead crises, then COVID-19, and most recently PFAS drove the shift, and it has been a career-defining—and extremely satisfying—challenge to stay on top of the ever-multiplying products used to clean the air and water in homes and to counter the landslides of misinformation and fearmongering that can accompany them.
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