Discussion for table 1

Conductivity of water allows measuring ionic constituents of all types of water including surface
waters, process waters in water supply and treatment plants. Pure water is not a good conductor of
electricity. Ordinary distilled water in equilibrium with carbon dioxide of the air has a conductivity of
about 10 x 10-6 W -1*m-1 (20 dS/m). Because the electrical current is transported by the ions in solution,
the conductivity increases as the concentration of ions increases. Thus, conductivity increases as
water dissolved ionic species.
Nevertheless, by referring to the table 1, we can conclude that the conductivity is highest in
the standard water and the least in the deionized water, while, tap water and drinking water has
almost similar conductivity values. This clearly gives us an idea that the standard water solution
contains a high amount of dissolved ionic species, while the deionized water which has a value near
0 clearly indicates that the water contains no ions.
Moving further on to the pH values of the sample, the standard solution has the lowest pH
value at about pH 5 which actually means the standard solution is slightly acidic while the remaining
samples are at about pH 5 which suggest that they are slightly acidic. However, drinking water and
top water are supposed to be slightly alkaline while deionized water supposed to show a reading
value of pH 7. We can come up we plenty of reasons to explain this unexpected result, but, we can
definitely say that the pH sensors are faulty, because there is no way we could have contaminated
our samples and also we have tried cleaning the tip of the sensors with deionized water and tried
them with other different samples, but they all , always give us a value lesser than 7.

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Conclusion
In conclusion, after examining all 4 different types of sample, we can all agree that the
standard solution has the highest amount of suspended solids and dissolved solids, while the
deionized water contains the least suspended and dissolved solids. The tap water and drinking
water have some amounts of suspended and dissolved solids which isnt as harmful as the amounts
they have in the standard solution