Did you read this? If you do it may change how you drink when you go out.
Girl, 12, proves toilet water cleaner than ice
A Florida schoolgirl won top prize with a science project proving toilet water is cleaner than ice in fast food restaurants.
Jasmine Roberts, 12, of New Tampa, tested her thoery in five local restaurants, reports Tampa Bay's 10 News.
"My hypothesis was that the fast food restaurants’ ice would contain more bacteria that the fast food restaurants’ toilet water," she said.
Jasmine says at each restaurant she flushed the toilet once, then used sterile gloves to gather samples.
She also collected ice from soda fountains and asked for cups of ice at drive thru windows. She then tested the samples at a lab.
Jasmine said: "I found that 70% of the time, the ice from the fast food restaurant's contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant's toilet water."
Her project won the science fair at Benito Middle School, and she hopes to win the top prize at a regional science and engineering fair.
9 comments:
I think she should win if she solves the problem not just identifies it.
wow, great science project. WTG for her to think of something so clever like this.
I'm sticking to bottled water
betty
WOW..smart girl!
Gem :-)
yuck good for her though. No ice please.
ewwwww!!
Terra
Well makes sense if they are cleaning the toilet with antibacterial products but many that stuff would cause us problems more than the bacteria in the ice?
GAK! I LIVE in Tampa, man! That's it...no more going out for me....lol
~Amy
That figures!!!!! http://journals.aol.com/shayshaydc/Golfaholic
Sharon:)
OHHHHH I can't bear to think of it.....this is sick!!!
Thanks for the story!! LOL (come to think of it, I have heard that ice machines are not very clean...ugghhh)
Michele
http://journals.aol.com/SamNsmile5/LettingItAllSinkIn
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