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!

Zuvo Water is confident that you will love their water purifiers as much as I did. One lucky Mommy PR winner will receive a Zuvo Water Filtration System (ARV $299)!

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