I will never use a hand pump water filter again.
344787
If you've ever used a hand pump water filter before, you know how laborious of a task it is to obtain a gallon of water from the device. The gravityworks filter makes filtering a gallon of water a breeze. This device works as advertised. Just make sure to back flush if the water your using has sediment in it.
3369201
At first I was very excited to try out this product. I thought that it would save a lot of time and effort over using the hand pump that I have. However, I was annoyed by this pump for two reasons. First, it was much slower than I expected. So, while it was certainly less difficult to partially inflate my kayak with this pump, it seemed to take longer than with the regular pump. Second, this pump is incredibly loud. I would certainly not have purchased this pump if I realized how loud it is. The purpose of kayaking, for me, is to go out and enjoy a day in nature. The pump is so obnoxious that it seriously impedes that while it is on.

I used the pump once, and I haven't gone back to it. I still bring it along and I would use it in a pinch, but for now I am much happier with my hand pump.
648897
I read alot of reviews about this filter and the way the water slows to a trickle, well I thought what the heck give it a try and guess what folks after less than two months it is now flowing at a trickle rate, the original one that came with the fridge lasted over a year.  I will not be buying this filter again.  People do read others comments and believe them when they say this filter sucks because it does.  I buy alot of stuff from Amazon and have never had a problem until now and have never complained about any products but this time I felt compelled to do so.
1339525
This filter is awesome.  My city water has a lot of lime scale and chlorine, and without a filter my skin and scalp are dry and itchy and my hair is like straw.  Thanks to the reviewers who pointed out the 3-month flip in the instructions... I had been replacing after 4 months (when the itchies came back) thinking that my water was just worse than normal.
4340491
I'm convenience-oriented. Having upgraded from the Brita pitcher, to the multi-gallon unit, and then getting the Faucet Filter I was excited for an improved Brita medium. Finally! No more soaking the filters, washing the container, refilling the container. Xanadu had arrived. The Faucet Filter worked superbly for 3 weeks, and then without warning its flow rate dropped to 1/10th the speed of a meandering trickle in January going uphill with a wind in its face. And yet the little green blinker indicated everything was a-ok. What I call the "Automated Water Filter Useless Light", or AWFUL, showed thumbs-up. So I timed it, because I am a [curious person] who does things like quantify product dissatisfaction. From the 2-gallon Brita UltraMax dispenser it took 32 seconds of joy to fill a 1 quart container to the brim. Yet, the same size jug from the faucet Brita took 2 minutes, 3 seconds. When you watch a tablespoon or cup of water drip to completeness it is as if your life is wasting before your eyes.
Using this product is not unlike being stuck in gridlock, only less pleasurable.
1939778
Works fantastic. Pumps water out at a great rate and can create a vacuum to have a constant flow rate. It also can screw into the barrel opening to keep everything in place. I highly, highly recommend this hand pump. Even weak armed people could use the pump and get a great water flow rate.
1668546
Have had one of these for about two years. Because we have three dogs and 5 cats, we got the biggest model and they all use it just fine. Some like to drink from the bowl, some like to drink the actual flowing water. When the new kitten came home a couple of months ago, he thought it was great fun to swat the flowing water but we got him over that. Now he just watches it without making a mess.

Forget the charcoal filters. After using one of the charcoal filters, I tossed the rest and don't use them. There really isn't any need for them and the pets don't care. Think about it, your dog or cat will lick his own rear end after drinking from a puddle on the street and you are going to spend money to charcoal filter the water! I don't think so!

I clean the pump unit once a week and it only takes me a few minutes.

I just ordered a new unit because the pump stopped working. I am familiar with the pumps used in them from my years keeping tropical fish and a replacement pump would have cost almost as much as a complete new unit so why not get a brand new shiny unit for a few dollars more?

I have to say that when my wife bought the our first unit a couple of years ago, I thought it was a waste but now here I am ordering one on my own!
2232705
The is the Best Purchase I ever made in my entire life!  I've told my Doctors, Family members, friends and everyone how dangerous buying water in plastic bottles is for our health!  I wish I'd known about this years ago!
  My brother put this together for me and he primed all 4 Black  filters and installed 4 white fluoride filters from the very start!
  So you can imagine the clean water we received!
  Thank you all very much for your helpful comments!
After a year, I ordered my filter replacements.  I'm the only one drinking the water.  It still  appears to be very clean.
  How often do I need to replace my filters?????
4795747
i will never buy another brand of coffee filter ever again.

not because these filters are any better than others, just that the "IF YOU CARE" brand emblazoned on the box pretty much guilt trips you into continuing to purchase their filters.

(joking aside, good filters)
2208232
I have decided to take charge in regard to my drinking/cooking water....I bought two food grade 3.5 gallon buckets drilled my holes as prescribed on youtube inserted this filter and have had the best tasting water ever since....I get my water from my shower which is already filtered by the berkey kdf 55 then also run through a chlorplus 10 filter and casing......then I fill my bucket and every day have enough to fill my non bpa leeching water container....these filters come in pairs so I'm using one at a time to get as much life as possible out of it...no more flouride and only minute pollutants from now on....I find that a pinch of borax muleteam 20 and a pinch of organic baking soda added after to my storage pitcher makes for water that tastes even better than what GOD can make !
1117480
I wish I could give this zero stars.  I should have listed to all the other reviews for this product and I beg you to please listen to me!  This filter is absolutely horrible!!! When the filter is on pumping water, you literally cannot feel the water coming out of the out take tube.  I had to unhook the tube and pull it up out of the water to make sure it was actually pumping water... the water was literally just barely trickling out!  I redid everything to make sure I set it up right, and still the same.  After two days with only fish in my 30 gallon tank, it is already super dirty! PLEASE DONT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY!!!! So bad! Honestly the filters that hang on the top of your tank would do better than this.. Also, I want to say that I have four tanks, two 55 gallons, 125 gallon, and my new 30 gallon.  My other filters are the Cascade 700, Cascade 900, and Fluval FX6.  These filters are amazing and I was just trying to save money by buying this one.. I will never again buy a filter besides the Cascade or Fluval.  Also, the sunsun does not have cut off valves, so everytime you remove the filter to clean it, you will make a huge mess! Please don't make the mistake I did.  Amazon needs to stop selling this product!
4204383
I live in an area where the water is harder than average.  I bought this to supplement the pur water filter system I already as the pur by itself didn't fully filter the water.  The first time I used this, I filled it with water that had gone through my pur pitcher and it worked great.  the water tasted clean and had virtually no mineral taste.  Boy was I in for a surprise with the second fill.  I filled my pur pitcher like usual and let it filter the water.  I transferred the water to the zero water pitcher for further filtering like the previous time and this is where the surprise comes in.  The water that came out of the zero water pitcher tasted like acid.  not like lemon juice or vinegar but almost like weak hydrochloric acid.  I tried to filter water again thinking that maybe there had been a leak or something but ended up with the same result, with undrinkable water that had a strong acid taste to it.  When I emailed the company, they basically said sorry but that they didn't really care but if I wanted to try and follow up with their technical service line.  Now I realize that living in a rural area that has hard water I wasn't going to get a ton of use out of each filter, I knew that when I purchased the filter pitcher and the water would eventually taste like it did out of the tap but for the filter to cause some sort of chemical reaction that acidifies the water and makes it unfit for consumption, I am sorely disappointed in the quality of the product and with the nonchalant laze-faire attitude of their consumer relations department.  Never again will I buy a zero water product. If it were possible to give zero stars I would, zero stars for zero water!
4012236
I've been a Zero water user for about 3 years now, and the filters use to last a lot longer.  Now they barely make it a month.  I just purchased my last filter on 7/20/14 and today 8/7/14, the water has started tasting bad and the water reading is at 198 tds.
The filters over the last year have been this short-lived, so I'm tired of throwing my money away.  Will no longer purchase this product.
- fyi I live alone with my sometimes college bound student home for breaks to give you an idea of how much use the filter is getting (i.e., not in a household of 3+ people)
3117058
I started using PUR faucet mount filters back at least over 5 to 10 years ago when they had only a white model with NO THRILLS at all.  At that time, those NO THRILLS model worked and lasted for years BUT DO NOT EXPECT that these days.  Since I invested in lots of their replacement cartridges, I had no choice but to keep buying the filters one after another and all of them failed terribly.  Within months, it started the slow leak and then it gets worse and worse until water sprays everywhere in your kitchen.  Like some other consumers stated, when you look at your "CLEAN" glass of water, there are all these tiny particles after you filled your glass, I did not see these particles back in the olden days with the NO THRILLs model.  Oh well, I question what these tiny particles are and why they were not in my water many years ago.  It used to be crystal clear water with a crisp taste but now I wonder how effective this product truly is.  The bright side for me is I finally used up all my cartridges and guess what?? NO MORE PUR!
2987340
When I first used this Vacuum, I looked just like the lady in the commercial: horrified. I couldn't believe how dirty the water in the dirty tank was. It was disgusting. I had been using a Eureka Envirosteamer mop prior to buying this. (It started leaking water). The second week that I used the Hoover, I expected the dirty water to be less dirty than the first time. I assumed that the steam mop I was using was just doing a lousy job. Nope, the water was just as disgusting as before. Out of curiosity, I picked up some paper towels and some 409 and tried wiping some random areas of my floor immediately after using the Hoover. It came up clean. That was impressive. So each week, between two dogs, two kids, and two adults, my floors become disgustingly dirty. That's okay, though, because this vacuum cleans great! Like other reviewers have said, I don't rely on the dry vacuum on this machine. I first use my Dyson, then use  the Hoover on the "wash" setting. My entire house is Pergo, so it also makes my life much easier. My only complaint is that the cleaning solution is expensive (for how much I need) and hard to find. I buy it anyway because it smells great.
3608480
when my husband began to use the pump, there were pin holes in the cast iron and water began seeping out onto the motor. This is unacceptable, but he's trying to fix it because we're in an emergency situation as our multi-person well/cistern system is no longer working well and we're waiting now for the drillers to come. We all have to use our irrigation water to water our lawns and gardens to keep excess pressure off the well and we bought this pump when our 30 year old Red Jacket pump failed to do our outside watering. And now we have to put up with this crap. No one in town has a 3/4 horse pump so we resorted to buying it here. My husband is going to try to seal it because we have no other choice, but this is ridiculous. All this money for something that's not workable without trying to fix it. I can't believe this is happening. Never again. Never.
3173373
Replaced the filter by the manual and the water taste wierd and have tiny pieces flouting in them. Gross, I'm done with this.