For low-tox households
You buy organic. You read every label. Then you drink unfiltered tap water.
You've low-toxed the whole house, one careful swap at a time. But the thing your family drinks more of than anything else, tap water, is the one input you never got to. And it's the one thing in your kitchen that doesn't come with an ingredient label.
The swaps you've already made
You've made every low-tox swap but one.
You're the one who researches, buys and quietly upgrades everything for the household. Look how much you've already changed.
Your low-tox list
- Organic & seasonal food
- Clean skincare & make-up
- Non-toxic cleaning products
- Glass & stainless storage
- Aluminium-free deodorant
- Low-tox candles & fragrance
- Read every ingredient label
- Swapped the non-stick pans
You swapped the containers, the cleaners, the candles. The thing your family drinks most stayed exactly the same.
The one input with no label
You can't read what's in your tap water. That's the problem.
Every other product in your kitchen tells you what's in it. Tap water doesn't, and what it carries is exactly the sort of thing you've spent years reading labels to avoid.
- Forever chemicals build up in the body over years, and standard water treatment isn't required to remove them.
- Microplastics carry hormone-disrupting compounds like BPA and phthalates, and have now been detected in human blood.
- Chlorine, fluoride and heavy metals including lead from older plumbing are routinely present in treated tap water.
- There's no ingredient panel. You'd never buy a food with these listed, but the family drinks them daily without a second look.
Mains water is treated to be safe, and for most of us it's fine. What it isn't required to remove is forever chemicals, microplastics or lead.
For a household that reads every other label, the unlabelled one is worth a look.
Before you reach for the obvious answer
Bottled water and jug filters aren't the low-tox fix.
- Bottled water is one of the biggest sources of microplastics, plus a mountain of plastic waste. The opposite of low-tox.
- Plastic jug filters improve taste, but you're drinking water that's sat inside plastic, which can shed the very microplastics you're avoiding.
- Boiling handles bacteria, but does nothing to forever chemicals, lead or microplastics.
If you've moved the whole kitchen to glass and stainless, your water filter should follow.
Swapping a plastic jug for another plastic jug isn't a low-tox upgrade, it's just a new label on the same problem.
The Waters Co difference
The low-tox swap sized for the whole family.
The BIO 500 MAX holds 7 litres, enough for a household's drinking and cooking through the day, topped up as you go. It runs your tap water through 13 stages to remove up to 99.9% of fluoride and up to 99% of chlorine, chemicals, heavy metals and bacteria, filters microplastics down to 0.1 microns, then holds it in a hand-blown blue glass reservoir with a BPA, BPB and BPS-free build. Filtered, re-mineralised water everyone drinks from, with no plastic in the middle.
- Targets forever chemicals, pesticides and herbicides, plus lead, fluoride, chlorine and bacteria in one pass.
- Hand-blown glass reservoir, BPA / BPB / BPS-free build, a filter that's low-tox itself.
- Adds 60+ trace minerals back, at a mild alkaline pH of 7.6 to 8.5, so the water enriches rather than just strips.
- One 7L filter for the whole household, the same clean source for you, your partner and the kids.
13 stages of sterilising, filtration and mineral activation, held in hand-blown glass.
What comes out
The label your tap water never gave you.
Forever chemicals
Build up over years. Standard treatment isn't required to remove them.
Microplastics
Carriers of BPA and phthalates, now found in blood.
Lead & heavy metals
Can leach from older pipes and fittings.
Glass reservoir
Hand blown, BPA / BPB / BPS-free. No plastic in the family's water.
Fluoride & chlorine
Added at the treatment works, filtered back out at your worktop.
Minerals added back
Bio-organic trace minerals your water is usually missing.
The maths the household buyer will like
One swap that covers everyone.
Most low-tox upgrades are per-person and repeat forever. This one is a single change that quietly serves the whole household, thousands of litres at a time.
Drinking and cooking through the day.
Over the filter's life. Bottled water can't come close.
Or around 18 months, whichever comes first.
You buy for four or more, so this is one swap that lands across the whole family at once.
And with the kids drinking better-tasting water, most families find they reach for it more.
No plumber, no project
On the worktop in minutes. No plumbing, no power.
Sit it on your kitchen worktop
Compact and lightweight, assembled by hand in a couple of minutes. It's gravity-fed, with no drilling, no electrician, no cupboard rearranging.
Fill the top with tap water
Gravity draws it down through all 13 stages into the 7 litre glass reservoir. Keep it topped up so there's always filtered water on hand for the whole house.
Pour, and cross it off the list
One filter set runs up to 12,000 litres or around 18 months, quietly doing its job while you get on with running everything else. A filter reminder service means you don't have to remember.
Glass, not plastic
BPA / BPB / BPS-free build.
Up to 12,000 litres
Per filter set, around 3p a litre.
Free UK shipping
Fast delivery to your door.
From low-tox households already doing this
The swap they wish they'd made first.
"I'd low-toxed the entire house, cleaning products, skincare, candles, then realised the thing we all drink most had never been touched. It was the obvious missing swap. The whole family drinks from it now."
"As the one who buys everything for our family's health, this was the easiest call I've made. One filter for the four of us, no more bottled water, and I finally know what isn't in the water anymore."
"My nutritionist had mentioned water for ages. The glass reservoir sold me, I wasn't about to swap to another plastic jug. The kids drink so much more water now too."
Honest answers
The questions low-tox households ask us.
Isn't our tap water already fine?
It's treated to be safe for most people, and that's true. What standard water treatment isn't required to remove is forever chemicals, microplastics, chlorine byproducts and lead from older plumbing. If you're reading the label on everything else in the house, this is the one input that never gave you a label to read.
Why the bench top and not a jug?
Two reasons. Volume: the 7 litre reservoir suits a whole family drinking and cooking through the day, rather than refilling a one litre jug every hour. And materials: it uses a hand-blown glass reservoir with a BPA, BPB and BPS-free build, so you're not filtering into plastic the way a standard jug does.
Is it actually worth it for a family, cost-wise?
Over the filter's life it works out around 3p per litre, and one set runs up to 12,000 litres or around 18 months. Compared with jug cartridges that need replacing every month or two, and with bottled water, it's far fewer purchases and far less plastic.
Does it strip out the good minerals?
No, and this is a real point of difference. Rather than stripping the water bare like reverse osmosis systems do, the BIO 500 MAX re-mineralises it, adding back over 60 bio-organic trace minerals at a mild alkaline pH so your water enriches rather than just cleans.
Is it hard to maintain around a busy household?
Not at all. It sits on the worktop, runs on gravity with no plumbing, power or tap connection, and the only upkeep is topping it up and changing the filter set, which lasts around 18 months rather than the month or two a jug cartridge gives you.
Is it safe for the kids to use themselves?
The tap is simple enough for children to use, and many families keep it somewhere the kids can reach so they help themselves. The reservoir is glass, so it's worth siting it somewhere stable and out of the way of busy elbows, the same as you would any glass jug.
Your purchase is 100% protected
Waters Co has led gravity-fed water filtration for over 40 years, with independent lab testing behind its removal claims and certifications including NSF International, ISO, CE, FDA and the Water Quality Association. Your BIO 500 MAX ships free within the UK, holds your family's water in hand-blown glass rather than plastic, and is covered by a lifetime warranty and a 30 day money back policy. You're not taking a risk, you're making the low-tox swap everyone in the house drinks from.
The swap you keep meaning to make
You've cleaned up everything else. Now clean up the water.
Of all the low-tox upgrades on your list, this is the one the whole family drinks from every day: filtered, re-mineralised water held in hand-blown glass, on your worktop, for the next 12,000 litres.
See it in action
Watch the bench top filter at work.
No plumbing, no power, no fuss. Fill the top, and gravity does the rest, drawing your tap water down through 13 stages of filtration into clean, great-tasting alkaline mineral water. Press play below, and tap to unmute.
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BIO 500 MAX 7 Litre Bench Top Water Filter
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