If they're used properly, they will last 10 years and filter 250 gallons of water every day.

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Last year Consumer Reports, a trade magazine, rated its filter coffee more highly than that offered by Starbucks.

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Last week Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested that a system be set up to filter SWF acquisitions, (See: "Merkel Plays Protector") and earlier this month her finance minister, Peer Steinbrueck, said the government has to pursue an "active industrial policy" to protect German telecommunications, banking, postal, logistics and energy companies, from being taken over by SWFs.

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