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testing the pH level of swamp water is 6.0. From tap water, 7.0. Now I need to write if swamp water is good or bad for ecological or potability (drinkable) reasons. The same for tap water. Can someone tell me because now I'm totally confused. I asked a similar question before and someone gave me a website. It told me that 6.0 is high alkalinity. I found out that 6.0 is acid not alkaline. So now I'm really mixed up. I need the answer by today. Please guys, I need your help

Answer 1

There are plants and animals that can tolerate acidic waters (actually waters of all pHs), and some plants and animals that can live nowhere else. So, acidic waters provide a unique type of environment for acidophilic organisms. A good example is an acid bog, where plants like sundew, venus flytrap, cranberries, certain mosses, and orchids grow. Acidic water tastes bad because it dissolves iron and sulfates, so the water looks brown and tastes like iron or rotten eggs.

Drinking water should be close to a pH of 7.5, which is just above neutral. However, tap water tastes best to most people when it has a pH closer to 8, which is slightly alkaline. Waters that flow from springs in limestone are usually the most favored type of drinking water due to dissolved calcium carbonate in the water.

Answer 2

http://www.epa.gov/castnet/images/ph_scale.gif
look this is the ph scale
anything around 7-8 is drinkable water
anything under 7 is an acid
anything over 8 is a base(used to neutralise an acid like baking soda)
that scale gives examples of every ph
basicly the more u go down the more acidic it gets
each level is 10 times as acidic as the last
e.g. lvl 6 is 10 times more acidic than lvl 7
and lvl 5 is 100 times more acidic than lvl 7

Answer 3

The acid starts at 1PH and increases to 7Ph but & Ph is salt and from 7PH to 14PH it is basic. Every thing is acid or basic and in the middle at 7PH it is salt. That is the way Mother nature handles the bad chemicals and neutralizes them into salt.
Example HCI acid very bad .
Caustic soda very bad
If u take some of each and mix them to a PH7 what u think u have. Simple table salt and water ,u could drink it .

Answer 4

6.0 is slightly acidic, not horrible for either purpose.