are health and wellness conscious, I would invite you to go to You Tube and type in Why Diet Sodas Make you Fat (comes up as Do Diet Sodas Cause Weight Gain) -- and there will be lots of information about why drinking carbonated beverages in any form is so detrimental to one's health -- their digestion, their absorption of nutrients and the deterioration of their bones -- really informative about why we should be alkaline and not acidic - I would never recommend drinking plain tap water...so use a filtered pitcher or install one on your faucet first. If still concerned about the flouride that does nothing to improve your health then the substitute would be alkaline water which in that case you would not need lemons. Though you would not want to drink too much alkaline water so you will need a quality filtered source even still. Not to mention alkaline water is more expensive. TAP WATER IS THE VERY BEST.. PERIOD! If you are concerned for your health, only whole water... all the minerals available... will provide. You are following what seems right.... because, on the surface, it does. But, alklalyn minerals are much more effective when carried and absorbed with their less alkalyn (more acidic) minerals. Basically, when the acidic minerals are removed, the alkalyn minerals are less effective, making your attempt to be only less acidic... not more alkalyn as you would assume. Yet, it sounds the same, doesn't it? By intaking more alkalyn without