One of the things I hate about where I live is what the water tastes like.  Growing up we always had one of those things on the faucet to filter the water.  Without it, the water tasted slightly chlorinated.  So when my husband and I bought our first set of appliances, I knew it was a MUST to have a fridge that filtered the water.  While I like the convenience of the fridge filter, ironically it’s not that cold coming out of it and that drives me crazy.  So when I was asked if I wanted to review the ZeroWater Pitcher, I knew immediately that I did!  Here was my opportunity to get filter water that is ICE cold…without adding ice!

About the ZeroWater Pitcher

You’re probably thinking, what makes the ZeroWater Pitcher so special?  Well it’s a 5 stage filtering system that uses an ion exchange system as opposed to only a carbon system.  It also removes virtually ALL detectable dissolved solids…I don’t know about you, but “detectable dissolved solids” sounds absolutely disgusting to me!  One of the things I really liked about the ZeroWater Pitcher is the fact that it comes with a TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) tester that will tell give you a number (000 up to 999) and the higher the number, the more contaminates in your water (and the worse it will taste).

The first thing I did was test my tap water.  The TDS reading for that was 191.  Definitely not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but wait until you see what the TDS rating my FILTERED fridge water got…116!  Here I was paying all this money to filter my water so it tasted better and it really wasn’t that much better than what was already coming out of the tap.  Next I filled up the pitcher.  It took about 20-30 minutes to completely filter and fill up the entire pitcher.  I decided that I wanted to taste the water first before testing it.  I didn’t want a TDS reading to influence how I thought the water tasted.  Let me tell you…it was the best darn water I had ever tasted.  And the TDS rating was 000!

Want one of your own?  Use go to this link and use the coupon code MC30 to save 30% off!!

How would you like to win the above pitcher?!?  Two lucky winners will win the above ZeroWater pitcher!  Read below for details!

GIVEAWAY!

This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.  You must complete the mandatory entry FIRST before any additional entries will be accepted.  Please put each entry in a NEW comment.

Mandatory Entry:  Check your TDS rating for your zip code and tell me here what it is

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This giveaway will run from today (3/31/12) until April 11, 2012 at 8pm EST.  Two winners will be chosen at random using the “And the Winner Is” plug-in.  Each winner will be sent an email that they will have to respond with their shipping information within 48hrs or a new winner will be determined.

 

Disclosure:  I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of ZeroWater and received a water pitcher to facilitate my review, two pitchers to giveaway, and extra filters to thank me for taking the time to participate.