And compared with buying bottled water, using a water filter pitcher is substantially more affordable (we did the math). The activated carbon filters used in most pitchers do a great job of ...

A measure of how effectively the filter removed flavor taints, along with the resulting odor taints, that CR added to plain water with minimal intrinsic flavor and odor (the "control" water).

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