Authorities at an Oregon School were left shocked with their mouths wide open after it emerged that the water in the school's toilet bowls was far much better than the drinking water at the school's fountains. The discovery was made by a Kyleray Katherman, who infused a little science into his English assignment.

Katherman, a student at the Oregon Coast Technology School, took the samples of water from the school's toilet bowls and from four drinking water fountains and took them to the campus' science lab.

After optimizing the factors for bacterial growth in the samples, Katherman obtained the results that were shocking. The Petri dishes containing drinking fountain samples contained a swarm of bacteria; however, the ones with toilet sample, by comparison, were much cleaner.

When the issue was brought up to school authorities, they quickly replaced the spigots and casing at three of the water fountains.

"You'd be surprised how clean the water is in a toilet," Scott Edmondson, the school's principal told The Register-Guard.

The students are currently also provided with bottled water in their classroom, since the school bans children from bringing their own bottles.