Conclusion; I’m still going with Berkey, but may be rushing some additional sticks just to be on the safe side. I’ve got an email out to one of the authorized suppliers whom still has stock. And that’s going to be www dot myberkey dot com. Thanks. Still to this day, missing their easy to use shower filter they used to sell. If I’d have known they’d discontinue that really awesome product, I’d have bought ten of them to last the next decade. The new ones are junk, just like crystal quest and the rest of them, disposable trash. On the bright side, there are a lot of really knowledgable people online talking about water filtration, which is helpful and finally more people are paying attention. Sadly, still appears quite difficult to simply purchase an effective water harvesting device for household residential use. One great thing from this unexpected multi hour research call, as this is alarming news to ban the Berkey, (of all the things, bozos in government), I learned about a good brand which with a 2k to 3k investment, can filter your entire home and this looks like a great product. That would be the ProOne Pro Home whole home in line water filter set. (I’ll pass on the softener, lol).