Question:
I am shopping for a water filter. My wife absolutely refuses to drink water at the parks, so we have been buying bottled water at Wal-Mart to drink and cook with. I am seriously considering the Everpure water filter (page 96, item D in Camping Worlds catalog) and looking for comments, good, bad, or indifferent. If positive comments out weigh the negative, I plan to buy one. However, I certainly will consider other brands if I get some really good comments concerning them.

Answer: We use a countertop model from PUR that discounts for about $60 or less. It has a diverter valve that screws onto the faucet spigot, and the pure water outlet is at the valve. The unit takes up minimal counter space, in an unused area behind the sink for us, and requires no eleborate installation. The replaceable filter claims to be good for 200 gal. Ours works fine, but some friends had a problem keeping the valve on their from blowing off the faucet. Make sure you have easy return privileges. We have been using a PUR faucet-mount unit at home for years now. I've been using Everpure for a while and while I have not found any major fault with them, they're grossly overpriced, on my opinion.

Go to any HQ, Home Depot, etc. type place and look at either whole-house filters or under-sink filters. There's lots to choose from. I'm using a plastic under-sink unit that cost $15 wo/element. A variety of elements are available in price ranges from $2 to $25 depending on what it filters. (I'd quote specifics but I'd be doing it from memory and that's probably not a good idea