# Recommendations for water filters (the kind you attach to your faucet)

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-water-filters-the-kind-you-attach-to-your-faucet/397095
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 22, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-water-filters-the-kind-you-attach-to-your-faucet/397095 "2007-03-22T22:47:42Z")
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### Author: ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-water-filters-the-kind-you-attach-to-your-faucet/397095/1 "2007-03-22T22:47:42Z")

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I posted this right in the middle of a MPSIMS [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=413355) and I think it got lost in the bustle, so I decided to post it in its own thread.

I’m going to paste the whole post in here, just because.

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I’ll be honest… The reason why I try to avoid tap water is because of an image that has been ingrained since childhood in my mind, of the inner surface of bad piping/plumbing. When I was a kid our taps weren’t the nicest looking, and the thought of using the water to drink would disgust me. I think there was even a movie I saw as a kid, that followed a stream of water through piping and out a faucet, and it was disgusting. I told you, it was ingrained in my head!

I also don’t like the taste.

So can anyone suggest a good filter we can attach to the end of our tap to get that “tap water” taste and any other unpleasantness out of the water? I really do want to stop drinking bottled water, I’m just very uncomfortable with the idea at the moment.

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### Author: ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-water-filters-the-kind-you-attach-to-your-faucet/397095/2 "2007-03-22T23:17:47Z")

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Brita and Pur both make faucet-mounted filters. I don’t know that either’s significantly better, so pick whichever one is readily available and well-stocked in your area.