By Aaron Mann

My hydration arsenal is extensive – a 1-liter Nalgene bottle I refill two or three times a day; 36 ounces of water bottles on the bike; various camelbacks for hiking/climbing; and coffee (98% water).  I drink a lot of water.

Up till now, I used tap water.  Our water in the Bay Area is generally quite drinkable, a big contrast to my time in southern California where even the plants want filtered water.  I don’t buy bottled water because it is both expensive and the bottles are hard on the environment. 

Homedics just launched Restore, a new state-of-the art and innovative in-home water purification system that combines filtration and UV Clean Technology.

Socialarc is thrilled to be helping them on this launch.  Restore rocks and here are some recent reviews:

mommygoggles.com

sweetiesswag.com

thegreenhead.com

Maybe the best endorsement I heard came from a friend who is a civil environmental engineer.  She has worked on recycled water for the last 20 years and said the plants keep adding more chlorine or longer UV exposure to compensate for the aging infrastructure from plant to tap. She hasn't used other water filters because “they only filter for taste and solids, not removal of anything harmful enough that would cause me any concern”. She loved this “plant in a pitcher” and wanted one.  One Christmas gift checked off the list!

Restore is California certified for microbiological water purification, a first for a water pitcher utilizing UV technology and is Gold Seal Certified to National Sanitation Foundation standards by the Water Quality Association.   

To summarize:

Pros:

Great tasting water

Easy to use

My Nalgene bottle stays a lot cleaner (no more of that fuzzy stuff building up every single week)

My 5-year old loves the colorful UV light.

Cons:

For years I used the coffee carafe to fill my coffee maker.  Now I use the Restore pitcher.  Meaning about 75% of the time I forget to empty the carafe and get a horrible mix of old and new coffee.  I’ll work this out in another couple of years.

Find out more here:  http://homedics.com/restore