Drinking water quality explored by Kingscourt student

A Cavan girl dived into the subject of the safety of drinking water in rural and urban areas for her project.

Ciara McEntee was the only Cavan student to enter an individual project in this year’s BT Young Scientist Exhibition.

‘What are you drinking?’ was the title of her study.

“My project is an assessment of the emerging and existing parameters set by the SI in 1999 and 2023 - so that’s the drinking water regulations,” explained Ciara.

“When I’m older, I’d like to be a doctor or do something in the medical field so I wanted to do a project that would highlight the health effects of the drinking water. Drinking [water] is quite important.”

Ciara found that water provided to rural areas has less chemical parameters than drinking water supplied to urban areas.