For us, one major thing usually stood in the way of meeting our daily water goals—taste. If our water tasted (or smelled) iffy, drinking even a glass felt like work. Bottled water was better, but grabbing one could be inconvenient, the cost added up and it left a negative environmental footprint.

So when we tasted the difference a solid carbon block filter could make, we were (almost) speechless. We hadn't tasted water like this before, bottled or otherwise. The filter lasted a year, and unlike those plastic pitchers, this durable decanter was worth keeping on display. It was exactly what we'd been looking for.