Berkey Water Filtration Makes You Feel Secure

When I first used a Berkey I cared about leftover chemicals in city tap water, not about marketing slogans.

This is one household’s experience so you can decide for yourself.

Berkey Water Filtration Is Quiet, Not Complicated

It is a gravity system. Pour treated tap water in the top. It runs through the elements into the lower chamber and comes out the spigot.

Current official replacements are the Phoenix filters. Background on the older elements: Black Berkey filters.

Kids can use the spigot. Elements are cleanable. In our house a set lasted about a year. Settings: home or away.

Why It Matters in Our Kitchen

Cheap pitchers did not touch the chemicals I cared about in treated city water.

Heavy metals are the ones I watch for with kids. Aluminum discussion: aluminum video.

Berkey reduces lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, and copper in tap water. That is why we use it.

Who Usually Buys One

• Families: Daily tap water at home.
• Pet owners: Same tap water in a bowl.
• People cutting chlorine taste: Gravity carbon without plumbing.
• Power outage: Filter stored municipally treated tap water when the pump is down.
• Travel: Hotel and campground taps that are city-treated. Not untreated creek or well water.

Peace of Mind

It is a countertop filter for treated tap water — at home or on the road. Shop Berkey systems.