How much pee is in your public pool?
If you are a regular swimmer at your local pool you may want to stop reading now. A new study by researchers in Canada has discovered that local swimming pools can contain up to 75 litres of urine.
Scientists have discovered a new way to test for urine levels in large bodies of water (something that has proved difficult in the past) and the results are shocking with the 75 litres of urine diluted in around 830,000 litres of water.
The results should hardly be surprising. In one anonymous survey, 19 per cent of adults admitted to urinating in a swimming pool at least once and several high-profile Olympians, including American gold-medal winning machine Michael Phelps, have also admitted to the practice.
While many consider the practice harmless, compounds in urine have been linked to asthma in professional swimmers and pool workers.
Have you ever urinated in your local pool? Does this latest research make you think twice about swimming in local pools?
Read more at theguardian.com
Far to much for me to be using any pool