Is alkaline water actually worth the hype?

Where can I pick up a water alkalizer and ionizer?
I've been browsing online, and there's a ton of options out there, with prices ranging from $350 up to $3333.
Does anyone here own one?
Any advice or tips?
If you're wondering why people go for alkaline water,
it’s all about the pH levels.
In case you aren't familiar:
http://whitebloomness.blogspot.com/2...ziva-voda.html

"Living" water: ORP = -350/-700 (depending on activation time), pH = 9.0/12.0 L
Freshly thawed water: ORP = +95, pH = 8.3
Boiled water, cooled quickly: ORP = +218, pH = 8.2
Tap water: ORP = +160 (can go up to +600), pH = 7.2
Green tea: ORP = +55, pH = 7.0
Black tea: ORP = +83, pH = 6.7
Coffee: ORP = +70, pH = 6.3
Distilled water, left sitting in shale: ORP - +250, pH = 6.0
Mineral water: ORP = +250, pH = 4.6
Boiled water, after three hours: ORP = +465, pH = 3.7
Soda: ORP = +320, pH = 2.7

ORP = Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP or Eh)

To whom it may concern,

This topic simply can't exist under the "Health" section of the PDF for several reasons:

Ionized and alkaline water—water ionizers. Are we looking at a genuine health breakthrough or just an expensive marketing gimmick?

Endimion17 said:There is a concept known as the water dissociation constant. At any given temperature, its value is exactly what the name implies: a constant.
Unless you drop something into the water to trigger it, dissociation stays incredibly low at today's temperature.
The breakdown of water into hydrogen and hydroxide ions. Simple chemistry, yet fundamental.
The ion concentrations are incredibly low. Minimalist, almost negligible.
Even if you managed to isolate a glass of pure, deionized water, it wouldn't stay that way for long; ionization would kick in almost immediately. As for trying to maintain specific alkaline or acidic levels, it’s a losing battle. The water will quickly drift back toward equilibrium, dictated entirely by whatever impurities are floating in it.

So, all that nonsense about alkaline versus acidic water from those countertop ionizers? It just doesn't hold up.
Water ionizers are nothing more than pure snake oil.The claim that you can alter your body's pH levels is absolute nonsense. The human body relies on a highly sophisticated buffer system—a complex network of chemicals designed to keep pH strictly within a specific range. It isn't something that shifts just because you decide it should.

Endimion17 said:Water is essentially neutral at standard temperature. If you somehow managed to disrupt the balance between the OH- and H+ ions, they’d just react back into H2 almost instantly. It’s self-correcting.

"Alkaline" and "acidic" water aren't actually things. They don't exist. What exists are solutions that happen to be alkaline or acidic. If you want to mess with the pH level of water, you have to introduce an additive to make it happen. Take a hydrolyzing salt, for instance. Or just dump in an acid or a base; they’ll simply dump their respective ions directly into the mix.
But then you aren't really talking about water anymore. You're talking about a solution.

Please move discussions of this nature over to the Alternative PDF. Such topics aren't welcome here.