How much pee is in your public pool?

Scientists estimate that there could be up to 75 litres of urine in public swimming pools.

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

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Far to much for me to be using any pool

Does not surprise me at all ...typically lazy human behaviour.... it is not as if toilets were not supplied at the pool

There is a charity advertizing on the TV currently showing people peeing next to their drinking water and want donations ???? they have to be joking.

 

 

When we were children, our Father always lectured us on pool behaviour. First we had to shower, in our swimmers, before entering the pool. There was a sign at the local pool reminding us to do so. If we didn't, he would make us go back and do so. Next he made sure we went to the toilet before entering the pool. It seemed like a lot of rot to us but he was always a stickler for rules. That's why I never walk on a Pedestrain crossing when the light was Orange/Red.

Your father was a wise man HOLA

As of late i have stopped going to my local pool, cause when i started going, i kept getting bladder infections time and time again.

and i was always on antibiotics. NO i don't get, and i'm off the antibiotics. Argh doesn't that tell you anything?

i habve been tempted to, but i thought the water may change colour and leave a trail back to my pen*s

Haven't they invented something like that? I remember someone saying they have some sought of chemical they can add to the pool and it changes colour when somebody pees in it. 

lol@HOLa, YEH i wish lol. NO i don't think so.....NOT yet lol, well not that i know of

Only 75 litres in 830,000 litres. Not bad. Still, I wouldn't leave without the traditional shower.

 

Have I pissed in the pond? No, Once in the ocean was enough to know that it rises and hangs about like the melted contents of a huskies kennel. Not worth the embarrassment.

 

Apparently some problems can be transmitted this way but I expect that dirty bums, even sweaty armpits or filfthy hair might be a greater cause for concern.

 

Maybe if people would do their business and wash before the pool we could get rid of some of the stink of chlorine and whatever chemicals they contain. 

Perhaps people should not be allowed in the pool without having a shower first seeing there is so many grots about.

LOLOL...My imagination again...

It's not the water that needs to be changing in colour when they pee in the pool....It's the filthy people that do it...!


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I do not swim in urinals

i'm sure there are many ppl that don't stick to the rules of cleanliness....

Its a shame. But look they let in ppl now wearing clothes, its so weird.

I don't visit my pool regularly anymore. More is the pity, but thats the way it goes. I did enjoy the exercise :)

 

They were saying last night on The Project, many people get skin complaints and bladder problems with people using Hot Tubs. Don't they add disinfectant to the water when people use them?  I've never been in one, can't stand the thought of all those germs. My husband went to the pool every day and always ended up with ear infections.

Buby - I think it could be worse if they were all naked. I'll have to ask Raphael, he is very fond of removing his clothes and trying to get us to join his little group.

A friend went on a cruise with a teenage daughter. All excited, she bought a new swimming costume. After using in the onboard pool it firstly lost its vibrant colours and then soon after disintegrated.

Quite amazing.

I remember the public pools of my youth ... the aftermath of green hair and reeking of chlorine.

Well-balanced home pools are a different story IMO. No dreadful smell, no green hair, no earaches and no disintegrating cossies.

:) After being warned about peeing in the pool, my young grandson peed all over my new flower planting ... guess who went apeshi*!!

He uses the toilet now.

RnR - My boys were very good at "Watering the plants", they all died.  I remember watching on Burke's Backyard many years ago. Don Burke was visiting an elderly lady and admiring her beautiful plants. He asked, "Do you have a secret tonic you put on your flowers?" , she became a little coy and whispered, "Yes, diluted pee". It was so funny.

:) Good one Hola.

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