School toilets cleaner than fountains

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Oregon student finds school's toilet water cleaner than fountain water


Tue Jun 12, 11:18 AM


NORTH BEND, Ore. (AP) - Middle School student Kyleray Katherman had a hunch something was amiss with the school's drinking fountain water. And right he was.

For an English assignment, he tested the bacteria content at four water fountains and one toilet to challenge a ban on students from bringing bottled water to class. It seems some were using it to sneak in alcohol.

Guess which was cleaner? It wasn't the water fountains.

He then asked students where they would prefer to get their water. That wasn't the fountains, either.

Classmates, teachers, administrators and board members said they had no idea.

Katherman attends the Oregon Coast Technology School that operates at North Bend Middle School with a focus on infusing technology into all areas of study.

Katherman, 13, used Q-tips and petri dishes, swabbing the spigots of four fountains and sampling one toilet, dunking the cotton in the bowl's center and then dragging it around the rim for a complete sample.

He took the results to the school lab put them under a light to speed up the bacteria's growth.

The petri dishes with fountain water were swarming with bacteria. The sample from the toilet was clean, probably because the toilets are doused with cleansing chemicals daily.

"I wanted to see the looks on their faces," Katherman said.

Either allow water bottles back, Katherman urged, or install "down-pour" systems used in office water coolers.

He took his results to the North Bend School Board with an eye-opening PowerPoint presentation.

Administrators quickly replaced the spigots and casing at three of the water fountains and custodians gave them all a thorough cleaning.

More teachers are providing water in classrooms now, but the ban on water bottles remains.

"It was a great lesson. We don't always see things in and about the school that are in need of repair," said Scott Edmondson, the school's principal, adding, "You'd be surprised how clean the water is in a toilet."
 

karrie

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So I should let my dog drink out of the toilet?

i don't know... do you clean it?

we let our critters, because it gets cleaned more religiously than their water bowls. Which would be cleaner? The bowl the dog's used for three weeks, each time after licking its own arse, or the toilet I clean every other day?
 

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As long as you flush. Nothing worse then a dog with piss breath.:pottytrain4:

If your dog drinks out of a dirty toilet, it should be taken straight to the vet. You need to have it immediately euthanised. They're too dumb to live.
 

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i don't know... do you clean it?

we let our critters, because it gets cleaned more religiously than their water bowls. Which would be cleaner? The bowl the dog's used for three weeks, each time after licking its own arse, or the toilet I clean every other day?

You clean the toilet daily? That's impressive.
 

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You clean the toilet daily? That's impressive.

And not what I said. lol. I clean it every other day. I have kids. Mainly, I have a son who sleep walks. So yes, it gets cleaned very often, because if I didn't, no one could sit on the damn thing.