The science fiction of water

Before you get drawn into the stranger-than-fiction web of the goodness of alkaline and ionised water, consider some basic science.

I had not intended to write about crazy fads – after all there are more than enough serious things to consider in the world today. But one fad, about one of the most elemental requirements of life, has been bugging me for a while and recently seeing some of the incredible prices charged for those pointless contraptions making alkaline and “ionised water” made me seethe a little.