METHODS

Soap Test for Hardness and Softness of water

pH test of water samples
Chlorine test for water samples

TESTING WATER
RESULTS
USING THE
CHLORINE TEST, PH
TEST AND TESTING
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SOFT WATER
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PH LEVEL DETERMINED THROUGH PH METER

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WATER) MARCO D.*, TEJASHREE J.* , ELI C., AMIT R.
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CONCLUSION
2.Chlorine is often added to public
Karamouli drinking and tap water is the softest water supplies in order to kill
water as the greatest foam layer was formed, and bacteria and disease-causing
although Chikhalgaon tap water and mula river pathogens
water is soft, it is much harder than the karamouli
waters. The drinking water in the cafeteria is Hard water is water that has a high
softer than the tap water found in the Biology lab. concentration of dissolved
This is interesting as it may indicate that the filter minerals, including calcium and
in the cafeteria is one that has two types of filters magnesium. This type of water is
and softens the water. not naturally occuring, as natural
None of the samples collected is pure H2O, as water contains no extra elements
none of them have a pH of exactly 7.
As all the samples were of a color lighter than the
standard color for 0.1 ppm, they all contained less OBJECTIVES
than 0.1 ppm of chlorine. This wasn’t expected, as
chlorine is often used to clean drinking water, and
is in rivers, killing the natural habitat. These Determine
results indicate that all of the water samples were 1. Chlorine levels
almost chlorine free. 2. pH levels
3. Hardness
of different water samples from
different parts of campus and our
local context