Every day when you lift lid to add water or remove coffee grounds from day before and add new coffee grounds , condensation on lid will always drip on your counter, about a 1/8 cup of water BEHINE coffee maker.You will have to wipe it up every time you make your coffee. It makes good coffee and looks nice, but it will always drip water on your counter from condensation.It drips behine the machine.So always have a rag handy to wipe the water up when you make coffee,or you can just leave the water on your clean counter every day.