The water at my place is really bad. There is a really strong chlorine taste and smell. Drinking the water straight from the tap is gross. I was looking forward to the Innvigorated Water filters since I had heard how alkaline water is good for you. Unfortunately, the filters did not work well. I've tried 2 of the filters and added on the other smaller one. The filtered water doesn't taste good, it almost has a slightly fishy taste to it. With my first filter (without the smaller one), I was actually filtering my water through a generic Brita filter before running my water through the Innigorated Water filter in order to make the water drinkable.