Customer Reviews for AquaTru - Classic Smart Alkaline PH Countertop Water Purifier for Forever PFOA, PFOS & Other Contaminants with App - White
Customer Rating
5
Water tastes great!
on February 29, 2020
Posted by: Anonymous
Assembly was simple. The water tastes really good. We have tried bottled water when not at home and it tastes terrible now. We carry AquaTru water with us now.
Overall we love it!! We’ve had it for about three weeks and our water tastes and even looks so much cleaner! We have the perfect place for it in our kitchen luckily because there is room right behind our sink, our faucet is offset and there is an outlet right below. We can dispense the water right over the sink. I think it would be awkward to have it on the counter dispensing over the floor . The spigot doesn’t some out very far so it would have to be right at the edge of the counter if you wanted to dispense into anything taller than a glass or mug.
I have used a Katadyn filter for many years and it is maintenance free basically except for an occasional wipe down of the filters. It has served us well in a foreign country. One of my daughter's uses berkey filter and it is also basically maintenance free, except for infrequent changes of filters. In the US now we bought the Aqua Tru for our daughter and it has required way to much maintenance and changing of filters. It doesn't like hard water, but we prefer to use hard rather than soft because of the sodium but have to use soft water. I'm sure it does a very good job of removing all of the things we don't want in our water, but it is impractical for a large family!
We have had our Aqua Tru system for a couple years now. It claims to remove significant amount of impurities from the water. I have no way to test the accuracy of that statement but I can tell you our water definitely smells better and tastes better so I suspect it’s doing the job. The chlorine smell is completely gone! The two tanks require washing with soap and water once a week. It takes about 10-15 minutes to do that, and also uses a lot of water that ends up going down the drain. Every time the tank needs to be refilled, more water has to be discarded, so there is a significant amount of water discarded in order to produce whatever you end up drinking. I have experienced a small quality issue in the past two weeks. There seems to be some leaking from the base of the front tank. I’m still trying to work it out before buying a new front storage tank. The unit is only a little over two years old so I am a little disappointed to be having a problem with it now.
Overall we love it!! We’ve had it for about three weeks and our water tastes and even looks so much cleaner! We have the perfect place for it in our kitchen luckily because there is room right behind our sink, our faucet is offset and there is an outlet right below. We can dispense the water right over the sink. I think it would be awkward to have it on the counter dispensing over the floor . The spigot doesn’t some out very far so it would have to be right at the edge of the counter if you wanted to dispense into anything taller than a glass or mug.
We have had our Aqua Tru system for a couple years now. It claims to remove significant amount of impurities from the water. I have no way to test the accuracy of that statement but I can tell you our water definitely smells better and tastes better so I suspect it’s doing the job. The chlorine smell is completely gone! The two tanks require washing with soap and water once a week. It takes about 10-15 minutes to do that, and also uses a lot of water that ends up going down the drain. Every time the tank needs to be refilled, more water has to be discarded, so there is a significant amount of water discarded in order to produce whatever you end up drinking. I have experienced a small quality issue in the past two weeks. There seems to be some leaking from the base of the front tank. I’m still trying to work it out before buying a new front storage tank. The unit is only a little over two years old so I am a little disappointed to be having a problem with it now.
We love everything about this filter with one exception: we can't seem to find the ideal spot on the counter top for it. . . . we don't have a huge kitchen! Outside of that. . . . . it's great!