I was going to post that last night but figured it
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Really good read: The link really explains it well.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_agua19.htm
"Alkaline water" is not the same as "water with alkalinity". For this
reason, water with a pH of 6.3 (e.g., sparkling mineral water) can
have hundreds of times more acid-neutralizing "alkalinity"
than water with an alkaline pH of 9.5 from an alkaline-ionizer.
--Robert Slovak