No. However, you must drink plenty of water at least 10 minutes before eating, and never during or after food.

The ph value of alkaline water is about 9, and therefore of acid during the stomach is all about 2.

This means that the acid strength inside the stomach is passed 1,000 times as alkaline water.

To neutralize every one of the acidity in the stomach (which is often produced some 3 liters per day) you would needto drink 3,000 liters of alkaline water. For that reason, you don't have to fret that alkaline water would neutralize acid in the abdomen. It's just a kind of health food containing beneficial mineral like spinach or seaweed.