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http://www.today.com/health/pee-swimming-pools-hot-tubs-lab-tests-reveal-dirty-truth-t109675


I had planned to enhance my exercise regimen by picking up swimming (again) but no ...

I found it interesting that even Michael phellps admits to using the swimming pool as a toilet:

""I think everybody pees in the pool," Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps told The Wall Street Journal last year. "It's kind of just a normal thing to do."

A recent study supports Phelps' assertion. Researchers in Canada tested 31 pools and hot tubs for urine. They found pee in every single one of them — 8 gallons' worth in a typical-size pool.

TODAY national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen went undercover to collect samples from hotel swimming pools, hot tubs — even a water park — and send them off to a certified lab. Only one came back pee-free."

"Chlorine doesn't kill urine," NBC medical correspondent Dr. John Torres told Rossen. "That chlorine smell you get in the pool, it's actually urine mixed with the chlorine you're getting the smell from."

Aside from being gross, "there are some health risks because when that urine mixes with the chlorine, it makes two chemicals, cyanogen chloride and trichloramine. Those chemicals can irritate your eyes, they can irritate your lungs, they can irritate your skin," Torres explained.

He added: "The main thing is, don't pee in the pool! Tell your family and friends: Don't pee in the pool."

Unfortunately, according to a recent study, 64 percent of Americans say they pee in pools. And experts say there's only one way to get rid of it: Empty all the water out and refill the pool."
 
Fardringle

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We have a sign at our neighborhood swimming spot that says

"Welcome to our OOL!
Notice that there's no P in it?
Please keep it that way!"
 
HumblePie

HumblePie

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That's why I have my own pool and there is no pee in it.

But I thought that if you go to a public pool it was common knowledge that people pee and poop in there all the time.

Yes poop. I used to be lifeguard for many summers at amusement water parks and saw more than a few brown logs floating by or stuck to the bottom.
 
highland145

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sandorski said:
It's only a toilet if there's poop in there. :colbert:
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HumblePie said:
That's why I have my own pool and there is no pee in it.

But I thought that if you go to a public pool it was common knowledge that people pee and poop in there all the time.

Yes poop. I used to be lifeguard for many summers at amusement water parks and saw more than a few brown logs floating by or stuck to the bottom.
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When I was a lifeguard we would occasionally get a log floating around since we had lots of childrens swim classes. Always pissed everyone off because we'd have to shut down the pool and back flush it.
 
PlanetJosh

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Yeah but isn't it worth if you make a new friend at poolside or even in the pool?
 
GagHalfrunt

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I think there's an important lesson to be learned here. If you want to pee in a pool (and who doesn't?) don't get into the pool first. Then you're just stewing in other peoples pee. Stand on the edge of the pool and pee in it from there.
 
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SearchMaster

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deadlyapp said:
When I was a lifeguard we would occasionally get a log floating around since we had lots of childrens swim classes. Always pissed everyone off because we'd have to shut down the pool and back flush it.
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I was a lifeguard 30+ years ago. I never saw a log in the main pool but did in the kiddie pool a few times. Back then we'd just fish it out and pretend it never happened.

I haven't been in too many public pools as an adult, but I used to take the kids to a neat public indoor wave pool when they were young. Two weekends in a row, we were there less than an hour before they shut the pool down for like 2 hours because some kiddo pooped in the pool. We never went back, such a waste of time.
 
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dud said:
http://www.today.com/health/pee-swimming-pools-hot-tubs-lab-tests-reveal-dirty-truth-t109675


I had planned to enhance my exercise regimen by picking up swimming (again) but no ...

I found it interesting that even Michael phellps admits to using the swimming pool as a toilet:

""I think everybody pees in the pool," Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps told The Wall Street Journal last year. "It's kind of just a normal thing to do."

A recent study supports Phelps' assertion. Researchers in Canada tested 31 pools and hot tubs for urine. They found pee in every single one of them — 8 gallons' worth in a typical-size pool.

TODAY national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen went undercover to collect samples from hotel swimming pools, hot tubs — even a water park — and send them off to a certified lab. Only one came back pee-free."

"Chlorine doesn't kill urine," NBC medical correspondent Dr. John Torres told Rossen. "That chlorine smell you get in the pool, it's actually urine mixed with the chlorine you're getting the smell from."

Aside from being gross, "there are some health risks because when that urine mixes with the chlorine, it makes two chemicals, cyanogen chloride and trichloramine. Those chemicals can irritate your eyes, they can irritate your lungs, they can irritate your skin," Torres explained.

He added: "The main thing is, don't pee in the pool! Tell your family and friends: Don't pee in the pool."

Unfortunately, according to a recent study, 64 percent of Americans say they pee in pools. And experts say there's only one way to get rid of it: Empty all the water out and refill the pool."
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This study also proves that 36% of Americans will lie on a survey.
 
HumblePie

HumblePie

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1sikbITCH said:
This study also proves that 36% of Americans will lie on a survey.
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LOL!

Although I probably pee'd in a pool when I was a toddler, I didn't as I got older. Very fastidious about that. Friends and siblings though... just ugh. Yes I caught them peeing. Be swimming next to them and then feel the water get warmer. I'd get out and not go back in either.
 
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Matthiasa

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Except you know that some actually don't... a river, lake, or ocean is a bit different though.
 
JEDIYoda

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Why is this even being talked about?? Most of us who post regularly here on these forums own our own in ground pools.......
 
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the only way to clean the pool is dump the water and refill?
i thought the filtration system filters out the nasties
 
Red Squirrel

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That actually is pretty nasty when you think about it... I admit to having done it myself, but I try to avoid it, it's kind of gross.

Even worse in a lake, where there's no chlorine. I'm sure the chlorine still helps somewhat in a pool, and there's a filter system etc. In a lake, it just sits there forever.
 
HumblePie

HumblePie

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luv2liv said:
the only way to clean the pool is dump the water and refill?
i thought the filtration system filters out the nasties
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Unless it's a very small micron filter.. the answer is no way a filter is going to get out pee particulates from a pool.
 
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