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Drinking water
Drink tap versus bottled water
Brita AquaLux carafe filter
The Brita AquaLux carafe filter, top-rated in its category by Consumer Reports, eliminates 98 percent of lead and reduces chlorine (taste and odor), copper, and mercury. Its slim, stylish design fits in your refrigerator door. An electronic indicator that reminds you when it's time to change the filter.Brita water filters
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Consider a Brita refrigerator, pitcher, or faucet mount filter. Take a pledge on the Brita website to reduce bottled water waste by switching to a reusable water bottle and you’ll get a coupon for $5 off a Brita system or $1 off a filter.Cuno Aqua Pure AP-DWS1000
The Aqua Pure AP-DWS1000 by Cuno, top-rated in its category by Consumer Reports, is an under-sink filter, which requires plumbing changes. It reduces sediment, chlorine taste and odor, and protozoan cysts, and is available with or without a faucet.Humboldt CRYSTAL QUEST Bottleless Ultrafiltration Water Cooler Systems
Enjoy clean, crisp, filtered water without the hassle of delivery schedules and heavy, eco-unfriendly polycarbonate bottles. Save money, space, and time at your office, school, or business. Water from your cold water line travels through nine stages of filtration, removing hundreds of contaminants.Pur Horizontal FM9400 faucet-mounted filter
The Pur Horizontal FM9400 faucet-mounted filter, top-rated by Consumer Reports, attaches to the faucet by removing the aerator. It removes 99.99 percent of Cryptosporidium and Giardia, uses a three-stage filter, and includes an electronic filter life indicator so you know when to change the filter.PUR The Exstream® XR Water Bottle
With the Exstream® XR Water Bottle you just scoop or fill up your bottle with any fresh water source available. The ViruStat® water purification cartridge removes over 99.9 percent of waterborne cysts and protozoa, like Giardia and Cryptosporidium, 99.9999 percent of waterborne bacteria, and 99.99 percent of waterborne viruses. It’s great to take along for international travel, backcountry hiking and camping, paddle sports, and fishing trips.PUR water filters
PUR offers countertop, pitcher, faucet-mounted, and undersink water filters,as well as a full line of lightweight, compact systems for camping and hiking, which received top ratings from Backpacker Magazine.Sears Kenmore 38454 under-sink filter
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Kenmore (Sears) 38454 under-sink filter was rated Best Buy in its category by Consumer Reports. It reduces chlorine taste and odor, plus sediment. It’s easy to install, with faucet and wrench included, and uses a Kenmore Premium Taste and odor Filter Cartridge 34373, which is sold separately.WaterFiltersOnline.com
Water Filters Online offers a huge selection of water filtration systems including whole-house filters and filters for faucets, showerheads, pools, spas, and RVs. They also sell replacement filters, test kits, and repair parts.Whirlpool Gold WHER25 reverse-osmosis filter
The Whirlpool Gold WHER25 reduces sediment, chlorine, Cryptosporidium and Giardia, lead, chemicals, and dissolved solids—including arsenic, copper, nitrites, nitrates, radium, chromium, magnesium, and sodium. Reverse-osmosis filters are the only systems certified to remove arsenic.
Use reusable water bottles
Guyot Designs Firefly Water Bottle Lantern
If you already have a plastic water bottle, consider the Firefly: it's unique design let's any standard wide-mouth water bottle double as a lantern. The patented lid design contains an integrated LED light in a separate sealed compartment which spreads a warm glow throughout the bottle.Guyot Designs stainless steel water bottles
Each stainless steel bottle Guyot sells through their website carries 100 pounds of greenhouse gas emission reductions—they're not just carbon neutral, they’re carbon negative! Choose from Standard, Commuter, and Backpacker models, which work with standard wide-mouth water purifiers.Klean Kanteen stainless steel refillable bottles
Klean Kanteen offers stainless steel refillable bottles, available through athletic/outdoor supply stores and online vendors.New Wave Enviro stainless steel and cornstarch plastic refillable bottles
New Wave Enviro offers stainless steel refillable bottles, as well as bottles made from corn-based bio-plastic. The bio-plastic bottles are good for up to 90 uses, degrade in 80 days if composted, and come equipped with a carbon-based water filter to remove chlorine and contaminants from plain old tap water.Sigg aluminum refillable bottles
Sigg sells aluminum bottles lined with a water-based, nontoxic lining. Sigg bottles are available in the US through athletic/outdoor supply stores and online distributors.
Choose bio-bottled water
+1 Natural Spring Water
This Canadian spring water is packaged in NatureWorks PLA© bioplastic which is derived from corn—there are about two and a half ounces of corn in every bottle. Fully compostable when deposited in a municipal compost facility, the +1 biobottle will completely biodegrade in 50 to 90 days.Belu Natural Mineral Water
If your travels take you to the UK and your refillable water bottle isn't handy, try Belu Mineral Water, the UK's first water packaged in corn-based plastic bottles. Belu donates all of its profits to fund clean water projects around the world. Their first project is installing wells and hand pumps for 10,000 people in a village in India. Each bottle of Belu purchased provides clean water to one person for one month.Biota Rocky Mountain Spring Water
Biota spring water is available in over 18 states in the West, Midwest, and the South. They claim that their corn-based PLA plastic bottles will biodegrade in 75-80 days in commercial composting facilities.New Wave Enviro water
These corn-based plastic water bottles come with a sports top and a built-in filter, so you can use them again and again before sending them to the compost heap.Primo Water
Primo claims to be the first nationally available bottled water that uses bottles made from plants, not crude oil! The bottles are made from a plant-based plastic called Ingeo. Primo Water is locally sourced in the US from an approved spring or from municipal water.
Find out what's in your drinking water
All-in-One Home Inspection Test Kit
The Home Inspection Test Kit is an inexpensive kit for conducting a basic home inspection. Home- owners or home buyers can determine the quality of drinking water, the presence of lead in paint, and the mold in indoor dust with this powerful yet simple test kit. Comes with detailed instructions.Complete Water Quality Test Kit
This kit claims to be the most complete do-it-yourself water quality test kit on the market. Designed to test up to 2 water sources for 15 different contaminants, this test also includes the only available EPA-approved free chlorine test strip.Watersafe All-In-One Test Kit
This simple, affordable, one-of-a-kind kit recommended by Consumer Reports tests for bacteria, lead, pesticides, nitrates, nitrites, chlorine, pH, and hardness—eight of the most common and potentially hazardous contaminants found in drinking water.
Comments
6:33pm
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3:54pm
Plant-Based Water Bottles with a Premium Spring Water
We’d like to introduce you to the future of bottled water – 100% pure spring water in a bottle made from 100% renewable resources.
‘Going green’ is not a novelty. It is an important shift in the way people live their lives and the way companies do business. In the past, making a sustainable choice when it comes to bottled water has been challenging. Most current brands offer variations of a petroleum-based plastic bottle, 4 out of 5 of which are left to pollute the planet.
re:newal premium spring water is packaged in a plant-based (PLA) water bottle made from corn derivatives, allowing it to decompose naturally or be sent for recycling.
The label is also made from eco-friendly PLA.
We believe this is the gold standard in eco water with our private natural spring showing one of the lowest impurity readings on the standard index. This compares extremely favorably with other companies who have yet to achieve the purity level of our water, or who do not use spring water at all.
We would appreciate the opportunity to provide re:newal as an option to your clients. Many organizations and consumers are looking to make a shift away from plastic bottles in favor of a ‘green’ alternative at a competitive price.
We believe re:newal premium spring water is that product that allows this to happen.
For more information, please visit our website at www.renewal-water.com or call
(239) 287-5792.
We look forward to speaking with you further.
Sincerely,
Sam Blythe
Regional Sales Manager
Keystone Water Company, LLC