THIS SHIT IS FUCKED UP I'M ABOUT TO KILL MYSELF

Uhm, well he's totally misunderstood the task anyway. It's NOT about pH, it's about ALKALINITY which is DIFFERENT from pH. Alkalinity is a measurement of water's capacity to RESIST CHANGE IN pH, i.e. the buffer system I wrote has carbonate ions (or whatever) converting the acid to CO2 and water until we're all out of carbonate ions, so...

THANKS ANYWAY :)