Alkaline Water do you know?
Despite a well regulated municipal water supply and near nationwide access to safe drinking water, Americans spend over $12 billion each year on bottled water. We are greeted with an ever expanding selection of waters for sale—pure water, water with electrolytes, flavored water, water from a spring, water from a glacier, water from a drought ridden state. But few varieties of water make as bold-faced claims of improving health as alkaline water. Available bottled or by do-it-yourself purifier, alkaline water is touted as anything from a fountain of youth to a panacea. What is “Alkaline Water”, First, a brief review course in high school chemistry. The pH, or potential hydrogen, scale runs from zero to fourteen, with 7 as the neutral middle. An acid is a substance with a pH of less than 7. A basic or alkaline substance has a pH of greater than 7. The World Health Organization has no health based guideline for pH in our drinking water. There is no definitive evidence that iden...