This is important because today, you can’t even rely on bottled water, which most people drink and is getting more expensive, to be alkalizing. Distilled water, which is inert with respect to mineral content, actually draws minerals from the body, and therefore, has an acidifying effect. Only water that has an alkaline pH can alkalize, and outside of using copper lined cisterns as the ancient Greeks did, an ionizing water system, or a high matrix water restructuring device such as the Quantum Age Stirwand, looks like a good thing to have.