Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

After seaching high and low for an Alkaline water pitcher we settled with this one, unfortunately. We really wanted to like this pitcher and it to be the solution to our Alkaline water desires, but it was not meant to be. Two major draw backs:(1) The lid does not fit securely. Iif you have a full pitcher and some water still left in the top chamber becasue the bottom chamber is full, the water will spill out when you pour. You could argue that maybe we should not fill the pitcher so much, but at the end of the day the lid should fit securely, period. (2) This is the one that really brings this product in on the one star level...The filters only last 25% of the claimed production (we tested two filters). This is a big problem and would end up being cost prohibitive over the life of the pitcher. We have both a TDS meter and a Ph meter. Water out of the tap will generally comes in around 6-7. In the beginning the filter will drive the Ph up to around 9-10, which is great; however, that performace quickly drops off. In fact after about 50 gallons there is no increase in Ph over the tap, and somehow the Ph would be lower than the tap on multiple occasions. Additionally, if you are looking for water with ZERO (0) TDS, this will not work. We further tested this pitcher by first running tap water through a ZERO water filter. The result there were ZERO (0) TDS and a Ph to match the tap water, about 6-7. After running through this filter, the TDS would be up to about 150, and the Ph value would fluctuate as already discussed. Again we wanted this to be the pitcher for Alkaline water, but it simply is not, unless you want to change filters about every week. Back to drawing board here.