LifeStraw Home Pitcher Glass and Silicone Base 7 Cup Terrazzo

This is a glass carafe. I'm really clumsy, but after reading about the cons of plastic, I had to try it. Yes, the 1st fills take awhile to filter, then it goes at a regular pace. The filter is stated to last up to 1 year which is very appealing. This feature will savemoney in the long run. It's pretty enough to leave on the kitchen counter. Drinking room temperature water is a plus with this pitcher too. It's very tall. It doesn't fit in a regular sized refrigerator shelf without making adjustments

I live in a West coast city known for its high water quality but got this pitcher d/t mainly to concerns about microplastics, which seem to be ubiquitous these days. I honestly never thought the tap water here was all that great, and I notice definite improvement in taste using this pitcher.As far as the negative reviews ... I find the reservoir holds almost 3 cups, a very respectable amount for a 7-cup pitcher. I don't know what's going wrong for those who say it filters too slowly -- maybe they didn't prep/prime their filters correctly? I find the filtration rate to be quick and perfectly acceptable. I would say if yours is filtering that slowly you should contact the Lifestraw folks and find out what you need to do differently.That said, I go through a lot of water and have decided to order the 35-cup dispenser (directly from Lifestraw this time) to keep on the counter and promote this one to fridge pitcher.

This is the best tasting water! Yes, it can filter a bit more slowly than with other brands, but that may have to do with the quantity of solids and microplastics that must be removed from your water.Because I have filters left over from another brand and didn't want to waste them, I decided to pre-filter my water and then pour it through. This not only makes the water seem to flow through the filter faster, but likely extends the life of the small filter that is supposed to be replaced every other month.My only complaint is that I have to manually hold open the little round flippy top while filling the pitcher. Otherwise, water can spill on the counter (I don't fill it from the sink) or unfiltered water can splash into the spout, contaminating the filtered water.Please consider a slight redesign, perhaps making the flippy top slightly larger and oval, not round, to solve this issue.

I learned about Micro plastics being in like everything. Bottled water household water. This pitcher filters out Microplastics and other stuff that is in most water (Including Plastic bottled water) It scared me at first because the reviews said it was very slow to process the water.... And It was till I did the filter prep to prepare it for clean water. Now it's pretty fast I fill it and go about some other business Then come back and fill it again. (I have several glass pitchers that when the Life Straw pitcher is full I fill the other glass pitchers and put THEM in the fridge. I keep the Life straw on the counter and process several gallons of fresh clean water a day. (Think of the Life Straw pitcher like a distillery not a serving pitcher) Fill glass simple pitchers or glass bottles and again put them in the fridge. Also I keep a room temp glass pitcher next to the Life Straw and use it to refill my Keurig coffee maker. Great clean coffee and Super simple and I'm not drinking toxic plastics and chemicals in my water. Tastes great too!!! Five Star *****

Well... I bought this pitcher because our city recently upped the amount of "disinfectant" it's putting into the tap water and even filtered through our PUR faucet mount filters, it was horrible to drink - like burning the back of my mouth horrible. (I'm super sensitive to this sort of thing - for reference I can't stand bottled water because it tastes like plastic to me, so take these comments with a grain of salt.) I did some research and discovered that our city uses chloramine instead of just chlorine - it's a combination of chlorine and ammonia and it's much more difficult to filter out. Apparently it needs much more time in contact with the carbon to get the stuff out, and since you can't run water through a faucet mount filter more than once, I got this pitcher to try to to make the filtered tap water palatable.So the way we're using this is that I take water filtered through the PUR filter and run it through this pitcher. If I run it through once, I can still taste the disinfectant a bit, but if I run it through twice it tastes clean. That may say more about chloramine and my sensitivity to it than it does about this pitcher though.The comments about the slowness of this thing are true. It has gotten a bit better now that I've run about a dozen cycles through it, but it still takes 15-20 minutes to filter one batch - one batch is NOT a full pitcher, it's more like 16 ounces. I mean, I guess the micro-filter makes it slow, so I'm willing to put up with that, but it's making it really difficult to filter enough water to cook. Plus, we have a cat with kidney disease, and he wasn't liking the horrible tasting water either, so we have to filter water to keep his water dishes full.I haven't managed to get the thing very full before we needed to use the water, and I actually don't plan to because here's the deal - while the pitcher itself is glass, the filter housing thing in the middle is plastic - so if you fill it with more than 16-20 ounces of water, your water is still going to be sitting in contact with plastic! I mean it's great that the filter removes micro-plastics, but I'm not sure what good it does if the water is just going to sit in contact with more plastic! I guess I foolishly assumed that the filter was housed in glass - wrong! This seems like a major design flaw for something that's marketed as a way to remove micro-plastics.And the final problem is that the thing is 11.5 inches tall, and the tallest our refrigerator shelves can accommodate is 11 inches. It won't fit in the door either - it's 6 inches in diameter at the bottom which is about half an inch too big to fit in the door. We might be able to re-arrange the shelves, but I'm not sure it's worth it as I think we'll probably be investigating other types of filtration/purification systems.Sooo... it works, I guess. At least I've found a way to make palatable water for the time being, but the many hassles involved with using this thing mean that it's unlikely to be a permanent solution. Or maybe the city will turn down the level of disinfectant soon and it will all be a moot point!

The water tastes great and I love glass pitcher. Sure, it filters slowly, but that’s not a problem if you:Fill a glass of water, then immediately top off the pitcher with new sink water, which is super easy with the flap at the top—you don’t need to open anything, running water pushes open the lid.I never have an issue with it being empty.