Drinking Water - brita pitchers & electric kettles?

Someone in my office uses his Brita pitcher daily. He stands at the water spigot and slowly fills his pitcher every morning.

I am personally fine with the filtered water at my office. However, my friend refuses to drink it. She uses the Berkey which I believe is the gold standard for filtered water. You do pay $$$ for it though.
theberkey.com/products/travel-berkey-water-filter

My dd has a reusable Brita water bottle that has a filter on it.

We use a Britta pitcher at home. I have a 64oz metal thermos that I would fill at home and take with me each morning when I worked where the water wasnt great. I can check the brand when I get home if youd like.

I was the electric kettle thread starter. I have these two.
One at home:
www.zwilling.com/us/zwilling-enfinigy-cool-touch-kettle-53101-200/53101-200-0.html?gclid=CjwKCAiAl-6PBhBCEiwAc2GOVG--3fs6Ax9_EgOf1SQj3uB9Ybf2BUgzb27d1SojfLJDsC_KQl_5QxoCYxsQAvD_BwE
One at work:
www.amazon.com/Electric-Upgraded-Stainless-Cordless-Shut-Off/dp/B08547W6R5

I use water from the fridge at home and bottled water at work. I’ve had to clean hard water deposits in the one at home, but it was super easy. Just boil vinegar in it and it came out shiny and new.

It depends on what makes your tap water unsafe to drink.
Filter systems such as Brita will filter out (some) of the chemicals in the water, but they will have no effect on contamination such as bacterial.

If it is contamination that you are concerned about, you will need to boil the water for a full minute before drinking it. Any electric kettle should be fine as long as you can keep it boiling for a minute. Ours has an auto shut-off when the water starts to boil but that can be over-ridden by keeping the lid open.

Then you will probably want to cool & chill the water, though I do know several people who drink plain boiled water hot, just as others drink hot tea or coffee.  

We have used Brita water pitchers on and off over the years and always been happy with them. I like that the filters are easy to get at local stores and they are easy to clean. Personally, I wouldn't use one in the office. Our office fridge gets crowded, things get rearranged and I wouldn't want other hands grabbing it (or helping themselves) if possible.

When we traveled to India, we bought lifestraw water bottles and were happy with them. From what I recall, they had pretty high-level filtration and were super convenient to use.

I have been using a Brita pitcher for a year now.  The water in my area tastes horrible.  Plus, we have a system where they are recycling water by piping it up into the mountains and letting it trickle down, supposedly naturally purifying it.  It is jokingly called "toilet to tap" around here.  No thanks.

I was just using the filters that I could buy for my refrigerator, but they seemed to be dirtied up too quickly.  The water taste changed quite fast and the filters were very expensive.  

I started buying water at Costco, but felt too guilty with all the plastic waste that I was throwing away.  I used to take meeting minutes for a local city that processed the trash and I learned so much about waste during the 17 years of taking their minutes that it has turned me into a really careful person.  I recycle everything that I possibly can.  And I know that plastic containers can be recycled, but it felt too wasteful, seeing my bin filled with all that plastic.

I ultimately switched to the Brita and have been quite happy with the taste.  A single filter lasts for 40 gallons of water.  Keeping track of that is the only bit of work around the whole process for me.  I have ended up with a routine of keeping two one-gallon jugs of tap water in the door of my refrigerator. I use those to fill the Brita. When one is empty, I mark it on a piece of paper that I keep taped to the side of the refrigerator before refilling it in order to count the number of gallons being put through a filter.  

I know I could just go by taste alone, but making a mark on a piece of paper takes seconds and it makes me feel more accurate.  The downside is that I use the refrigerated water to fill my Keurig coffee maker because I want the filtered water in there, even though it has a little filter in the water collection area anyway.  It just takes a bit longer to heat the water if I have accidentally let it get empty before noticing.  If I stay on top of it and fill it at night, it is fine.

I also use an electric kettle for my daily tea, again, using the Brita pitcher to fill it.  I should probably just buy a second pitcher to use for room-temperature water.

That seems a bit strange. Mine drips down pretty slowly.

I've found that if the filter is not properly seated, the water goes through pretty quickly.  Remove the filter and reinstall.