Zuvo Water Filtration System Review & Giveaway
I’ve always been one of the purifying pitcher people. I don’t like to drink my tap water straight from the faucet, so I “purify” it in one of the pitchers before filling up my glass. Changing the filters for the pitcher is easy enough, but I have to change it regularly. Let’s be honest, it’s not super environmentally friendly to toss so many used refill canisters in the trash! That’s why I jumped on the opportunity to review a better way to purify my drinking water: Zuvo Water Filtration System.
Installing and using the Zuvo filter was actually quite easy, though I admit, the Zuvo box sat by my kitchen sink for a couple of days taunting me that it was going to take a lot of effort to get it hooked up. Even someone as completely unhandy around the house, like myself, was able to install it without any help! I just unscrewed the end of the faucet and screwed in the faucet attachment on the Zuvo. Of course, it took me a couple tries as I was momentarily struggling to figure out all the pieces that fell out of the faucet when I unscrewed the top. Turns out, if it falls from your faucet, you can set it aside because you don’t need it when you screw in the Zuvo.
Once it’s tightly secured to your current faucet, you just turn on the water like normal. On the edge of the Zuvo faucet attachment, there is a little pull lever which stops the flow of your regular water and instead pushes the water through the Zuvo to be filtered and purified. The instructions recommend at start up to run water through the Zuvo for 5 minutes to flush the system before using regularly. When I turned it on for the first time, I was pretty astonished. The whole thing lit up brightly, with a slight purplish/bluish color (which is actually purifying the water) and the water started flowing in from the bottom of the Zuvo water compartment. After about an inch of water accumulated, it began twirling like a cyclone inside the system as the machine hummed slightly. If it’s not too cheesy to say, I felt like a fly headed toward one of those fly zappers…the main difference is that the fly zapper is killing and the Zuvo filtration system is making your water healthier and cleaner!
Now, I did panic slightly when I realized the water was about to get to the top of the water compartment. The instructions didn’t exactly mention what to do once you turn the water on and you’ve gazed in awe for a moment. I ended up turning the water on and off a couple of 
times to see if I was doing something wrong. As it turns out, the water is supposed to flow all the way to the top of the Zuvo, and yes it does make a little bubbly noise like it’s spilling over once it gets to the top, but really it’s just being forced into the tube that leads the freshly filtered water back toward the faucet. The water then pours out in a small, steady stream in a separate exit from where water directly from your faucet flows.
After letting my water flow for 5 minutes as instructed, I proceeded to fill up my purifying pitcher. I removed all the purifying equipment from the top of the pitcher and just filled it up with fresh Zuvo water instead! The Zuvo instructions recommend you fill up a pitcher instead of turning the water on/off multiple times throughout the day to fill up individual glasses. Your Zuvo filtration system should last longer this way.
If I had to come up with one complaint about the Zuvo Water Filtration System it’s that the system is a little bit clunky on the counter top. This problem is very easily solved because the creators of Zuvo also made an under-the-counter filtration system! If you don’t have the space for the Zuvo on your countertop, you have the option of purchasing the under-counter system instead!
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I didn’t know anything about how water is purified by uv light~very interesting!
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I learned that currently the Zuvo Water Purator is not rated for reduction of arsenic.
I learned that bottled water is typically no safer or healthier than tap water and chemicals can even leach from plastic bottles into water.
I learned that while the filtration system works to filter the water it still preserves the mineral content of the water.
Over time, Zuvo costs a fraction of what you’ll spend on bottled water or pitcher filters. Thanks.
The Zuvo uses high intensity UV light to purify. The undercounter option requires purchasing a “butler” faucet to connect it to.
I learned:”Zuvo’s patented Puration process uses nature’s own cleansing process right in your kitchen. It treats non-pathogenic organisms, taste and odor contaminants, reduces aesthetic chlorine, lead, and tiny particulates.”
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Thanks for the giveaway…The Zuvo Water Purator uses a patented five-step process (OZONATION, ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, PHOTO-OXIDATION, FILTRATION WITH LEAD REMOVAL, and POST-FILTRATION UV) to produce clean, healthy, great tasting water…just the way nature intended!
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I learned that is zaps the water 2x’s with a uv light.
The Zuvo uses high intensity UV light to purify, very unique looks like it does a great job
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Zuvo’s patented Puration process uses nature’s own cleansing process right in your kitchen. It treats non-pathogenic organisms, taste and odor contaminants, reduces aesthetic chlorine, lead, and tiny particulates
Over time, Zuvo costs a fraction of what you’ll spend on bottled water or pitcher filters.
They sell this device at Ferguson, which is a kitchen store close to us. We can view the Zuvo there to see how it might look in our kitchen.
I learned that Filters should be changed at approximately the 500 gallon point, or 6 months, whichever comes first. However, water quality and water usage may affect the frequency of filter changes. Monitor your water usage if possible, as it can change seasonally. If you start to see degradation in water flow from your Zuvo Water Purator or experience an unusual taste, change the filter.
I learned that it does lead removal by passing water through a Class 1 Particulate Reduction Filter, reducing chlorine taste and odor, lead, and tiny particulates.
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