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Maybe it's to make it obvious when the filter is no longer trustworthy rather than letting something harmful but flavorless get through?



Maybe they just want to make more money.


Sounds like they care about their customers enough to add a mechanism like that. I think a transparent filter with a sensing colored indicator would be a much better and more customer friendly solution though.

Other filters have a shitty digital timer on the pitcher lid last time I checked. It never worked well so I resorted to changing the Brita whenever it started tasting funny. Now I just buy artesian alkaline water. I feel much better.

Most of these filters suck. Better off making your own. Buy silver coil and NSF coconut carbon. Use a french press type device to push water through your silver assorted carbon. Easy! And you save plastic since you made the filter yourself :-)


>Now I just buy artesian alkaline water

When the third world revolts, this will be their rallying cry.




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