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interesting...so that does that mean you have to keep taking it on and off of your sink faucet? because i don't know that i'd want EVERTHING to have a fruity backdrop to it.

i hate to be negative, but i really turn my nose up at this stuff. it seems very wasteful and useless. I mean, really, what is the point? do you really NEED flavored water from the tap! What if you want to fill up a pot of water for pasta - you get raspberry flavored pasta?

from what I've seen of the pur filters, you can easily turn the side knob to switch it between the regular tap (unfiltered) and the pur tap (filtered). so if you wanted to fill a pot of water, for example, you could do it with the regular tap. those flavored cartridge would be practical if you used the pur filter only for drinking water and nothing else (and never for unflavored drinking water).

God that's weird. I wonder what they were thinking.

I think you need to get a new style of filters if you want to use these flavor options thingie. IMHO, the weird thing about PUR filters is, although they claim to remove more contaminants than Brita, the water for some reason doesn't taste as good coming out of the PUR filters. The new Ultra line which adds minerals back into the filtered water taste slightly better -- perhaps this is to address the water tasting issue?

Pur sent me a bunch of coupons in the mail for this. My first reaction was "gross!".

I use a PUR cartridge here in Austin and it does help with taste, and you do just flip it up for unfiltered water. This is an interesting idea. I've never seen these for sale. Wonder where they will stock them (as in what aisle) since fruit juice and filters aren't usually together.

I just read the website. Looks like you have 3 options: filtered, unfiltered and "delicious flavor!"

ha.

Well, now kids running for student council can make good on that promise to have the school water fountains dispense strawberry punch.

A kitchen faucet is not designed for the type of pressure this system will put on the faucet.

Changing that flavor cartridge to suit everyones taste and that pushing on the faucet.....
Oh boy I can see a major recall or class action suit once everyones faucet starts to leak and or pull out.

Go into your Kitchen and press lightly on your kitchen faucet and think to yourself how long will your kitchen faucet tolerate that kind of abuse.

Buy one if you want, but I shame proctor and gamble for a very bad design and I wonder how much testing they actually did, if any.