But it's available in your hot climate region. Not everybody lives there.

Oh so true...

I'm influenced by my old teacher to use as an alternative:
home distilled water + lemon / orange
Let it sit for 2 minutes then drink.
Home distilling purifies the water.  The lemon / orange structures the water to something the body can use more efficiently and not leach the body of minerals.

They'd also drink grapefruit juice laced with high-fructose corn-syrup until they were fat and dead. They'd do lines of coke as well if they could or anything else that short-circuited the pleasure centers in the brain. This is why, its not such a good  idea to look  at what animals do in the wild. Cue paleo phil and his great example of giant pandas and bamboo.

Yes it would.  That is why you squeeze a lemon or orange in the distilled water.  You are now drinking lemonade / orangeade.


Because the "minerals" in mineral water are all INORGANIC, eventually loading up your kidneys in your old age. 

While the minerals in lemonade / orangade / watermelon / coconuts are organic minerals.  Kidneys are kept healthy.

Maybe there is a threshold of PPM of minerals and their composition in good mineral water.
I myself drink from fresh mountain spring water on provincial trips and consider it a treat.
Maybe if I lived near mountain springs that fresh mineral water would be part of our supplemental water.

I have doubts with bottled mineral water.