If you visit Barcelona, Spain, don’t drink the tap water. Depending on which part of town you are in, water from the faucet either tastes of chlorine, gives you cancer, or both. This is why almost everyone buys giant eight-liter (541 tablespoons) bottles of water and drags them up the stairs of their seven-story, elevator-free apartment buildings.
Yes, yes, the environment would be better if only I used a water filter. The problem is that they are so frikkin’ ugly. And plastic. Here, though, is a glass and steel beauty, a jug so fine it doesn’t use boring old everyday charcoal cartridges but real lumps of Binchotan charcoal and louseki stones, all the way from the “mountains in Kanazawa, the capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast.”
This is, clearly, the home-made equivalent of Fiji bottled water.
The cost is a not unreasonable $85, fine for something used several times daily. The refills come in at $25 each, which – even if one lasts just half the promised six months – is a whole lot less than the money spent on water, plus the environmental costs of trasport and plastic bottle disposal.
The best part? The refill is called “Purifying Sticks and Stones”, with which you can also, presumably, break somebody’s bones.
Product page [Design Within Reach via Uncrate]
The design of this water filter is so sharp and clean, it makes you believe the water has been filtered and is safe to drink and in fact even good for you to drink.
I live where the water is fine, but if one was sent to me for free I would promote it with all my friends, guests and customers. I sell high design houses, and surely could convince people to buy this beautiful and useful object.
Thanks!