PUR PPF951K3 Lead Reduction Pitcher Filter - Ultimate Replacement for Cleaner Water

Lalie: This was a gift was apprehensive at first, water taste much better than some of the bottled water I used to buy and no bottles to discard. We’ve had the pitcher for at least five years and still works great.

United States on Jan 01, 2024

Jesse E.: The packaging says these are good for only 2 months which seems a bit ridiculous, so I try to stretch to 4. Water tastes good, just wish they had more life.

United States on Dec 18, 2023

JayEff: I bought this in the past and it worked as advertised. Clean water, Pure taste, Very good. Then I was swayed by the siren call of "Zero Water", which I bought from a department store. Except, with ZeroWater, the water went from tasting pure to tasting Drastically bitter, even moreso than my city tap water (St Louis suburb), and its 'particulate meter' would go from a reading of zero to something different. I tried several ZeroWater filters, but all resulted in the same pure/drastically bitter pattern. Today is 12/2/2023, in case they change their filter formula.

Does the ZeroWater filter make its water taste artificially bitter at expiration of its filter compared to the tap water poured in from the start? I'd say Yes, because PUR doesn't do that. PUR is Great from the start, then Gradually goes from Awesome eventually to the original tap-water taste. ZeroWater goes from tasting Great to Suddenly tasting like bitter chemicals, which was way worse than the original tap water taste. Anyway, I tossed my ZeroWater filter into the recycle bin and bought this PUR Water filter.

Period. Don't believe me? Try the ZeroWater filter and tell me what...

United States on Dec 03, 2023

Linda Rintamaki: I used this product to remove lead from our tap water.

Canada on Nov 21, 2023

M. Klein: These filters seem to not work as long as the previous filters.
They start flowing really slowly within a short period of time.
Nothing has changed with the water that I filter through these.
Wouldn't surprise if this is intentional to sell more filters.
Corporations are greedy.

United States on Sep 21, 2023

Stephanie: Thanks

Singapore on Aug 28, 2023

Eric: The new pur plus jugs have a light on the top which is really annoying because it submerges a battery in your drinking water. You can remove it but then you have a hole in the top allowing bugs and dust and dirt into your drinking water. A really bad design. Fortunately I have a couple old pur plus jugs and these new filters do fit the old jugs thank God. Pur, please fix the design of your new jugs get rid of that light.

As far as the quality of the filters my only complaint is when they start to slow down sometimes that happens really quickly but other times they do last for months. I have not seen any filter that produces better tasting drinking water, so for that I have to give five stars, pur plus filter is the best.

Canada on Aug 16, 2023

Annie : The cartridge is too expensive it doesn’t last that long.

Canada on Sep 01, 2020

Stephen Pontes: Updating review for 1/13/2020, original review left below for context.

So after filling over the past few days I've noticed it always stops filtering at a certain fill level.

Taking the filter out of the container, I noticed the carbon granules looked fairly packed in the filter, and weren't moving around as I flipped the filter. I vigorously shook the filter for 10-15 seconds until it looked like all the particles were moving around freely, and put the filter back in the container.

For the first time since installing this filter, the entire reservoir was filtered in a very quick amount of time.

If you're encountering issues with the filter being incredibly slow or not filtering:

- Take the filter out
- Shake it (hard) for 15-20 seconds until it sounds like a maraca
- Hold it under a faucet for ~30 seconds
- Replace it

Problems solved, review updated, will buy again :D

Original review below:
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I previously purchased the version of this filter that does not filter lead. I believe the model was PPF900Z or CRF-950Z.

As much as I like the idea of filtering out lead, these are...

United States on Jan 11, 2020

Chris H: I live in Dalby, rural Australia. Australia has extremely archaic standards on lead levels, allowing 4.5% lead content in faucet fittings (as opposed to .25% in the USA/Canada). There are many old lead pipes in Australia's plumbing, but the government has avoided expensive replacements claiming the lead levels in the water are "natural". The government has recently begun recommending all households run their faucets for 30 seconds first, before drinking the water...

My water tastes metallic. Are lead levels elevated in my water? I don't know, probably not, I don't care. There is inevitably some amount of lead, and it is inevitably going to be reduced by this filter. There's really no safe amount of lead, the less the better.

A recent sampling of 212 households in NSW, Australia found that 56% of the 212 households had detectable levels of lead in their water, and 8% exceeded allowable Australian standards for lead. Granted, elevated blood levels of lead have rarely been found to be linked to drinking water. But keep in mind, children consume more water relative to their body mass than adults, and children have developing brains.

We needed a...

Australia on Sep 15, 2019