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Water quality regs require between 6.5 and 9.5. Of course pure water is pH 7 but the CO2 in our atmosphere dissolves in water to give a pH of 5.2. That is slightly corrosive and it picks up metals from the environment (rocks it moves through, plumbing, . . .) and increases the pH. Seawater has pH=8.
