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Introducing the best filter for your Berkey

As it became clear that we can no longer count on Berkey for reliable replacement elements, we started searching for new filters so that you, and our many existing Berkey customers, can continue to use your Berkey system, with confidence.
We looked around at filters sold by other gravity filters brands, and their specs. We were not impressed.
Then serendipity stepped in...

Watermatters has terminated business with Berkey®. Here's why.

Like many of you, we have enjoyed using a Berkey® for filtering our drinking water for many years. However, over the past year and a half, Watermatters has received increasingly frequent reports of Black Berkey replacement elements that produce relentlessly cloudy water, or that are terribly slow to produce any filtered water at all, even after thorough attempts to prime and flush.
The quality and performance of Black Berkey filtration elements supplied to Watermatters by Berkey® since mid 2021 became increasingly unpredictable...

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