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 @872ab8e1 Seems a good time for a reminder that "alkaline water" has absolutely zero health benefits.  It's just a matter of a certain sort of taste and texture.  Otherwise there are exactly zero benefits.

People get lead into ideas like that it can somehow balance their blood pH or something.  It doesn't.  If it could affect your blood pH at all you'd end up in the hospital.  Your body keeps blood pH in a very very tightly controlled range.  Alkaline water will not change this.