article_snippet.sent: Students, parents and staff at a Melbourne high school are horrified after the discovery students have been drinking treated sewage water from a bubbler on campus for more than a year.
article_snippet.sent: In a letter sent to all parents during the school holidays, the principal of St Peter’s College in Cranbourne East, Tim Hogan admitted that ‘Class A’ recycled water had been inadvertently connected to an outdoor drinking fountain.
article_snippet.sent: a bubbler on campus had been dispensing recycled water for 16 months– from December 17 2013 until April 1 2015.
article_snippet.sent: Unfortunately for students, ‘Class A’ recycled water is sewage that has been treated to a standard that’s safe for watering gardens, washing clothes and flushing toilets.
article_snippet.sent: St Peter's College were drinking from a bubbling dispensing recycled water for more than a year .
article_snippet.sent: Although it is the highest quality of recycled water, the water that the students had been consuming is not considered acceptable for consumption.
article_snippet.sent: Whilst drinking the water, the students would have been at a greater risk of contracting gastroenteritis or diarrhoea due to the possible presence of a parasite, Cryptosporidium.
article_snippet.sent: Although it is the highest quality of recycled water, the water that the students had been consuming is not considered acceptable for consumption .
article_snippet.sent: ‘the Department of Health and Human Services has advised that drinking the Class A recycled water may have led to a slightly increased risk of gastro,’ the principal warned.
article_snippet.sent: However, preliminary testing of the chemicals present in the drinking water from the bubbler found that ‘the vast majority were at very low concentrations’, meaning the student were unlikely to have been harmed from consuming the Class A recycled water.
article_snippet.sent: Whilst drinking the Class A recycled water, the students would have been at a greater risk of contracting gastroenteritis or diarrhoea due to the possible presence of a parasite, Cryptosporidium .
highlights_snippet.sent: A bubbler at a Melbourne high school has been dispensing recycled water .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Students at St Peter's College in Melbourne may have been drinking treated sewage water for around 16 months .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Students were at risk of contracting gastro while drinking from the bubbler .
  