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Is Your Public Swimming Pool Safe? Dirty Pools and Diseases, CDC Reports
Assoicated Content ^ | May 21st, 2010 | Sherry Tomfeld

Posted on 05/21/2010 9:06:15 AM PDT by stillafreemind

Pools can be dirty, toxic and full of many things that make kids and adults sick. Fecal matter is just the tip of the iceberg. Children with dirty diapers are adding to unsafe swimming pools. When 1 in 5 adults admit to urinating in swimming pools, how much urine must be in public swimming pools? Nitrogen from urine can actually eat chlorine. Sweat and suntan lotion can also damage chlorine in pools.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdcreport; diseases; public; swimmingpools
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To: dfwgator

Watch outa for da pee!


21 posted on 05/21/2010 9:21:34 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: HamiltonJay

Ive had my face in worse places...


22 posted on 05/21/2010 9:25:04 AM PDT by refermech
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To: Mount Athos

The only exception is the talk about swim diapers, those things are serious biohazards that could get a lot of people sick at once. Also known as fecal tea bags.


Hadn’t heard that term used before but it’s very apt and very descriptive.


23 posted on 05/21/2010 9:28:32 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: DonaldC
Imagine what is in the local lake.

If it's anything like my home-town lake, it probably contains the following:

Fish (to include waste products and dead fish)
Waterfowl (to include waste products and dead waterfowl)
Waterfowl-retrieving dogs
Humans (to included waste products and, possibly, dead humans)
Livestock remains
Tractors
Pick-up trucks and cars
Waste products from pick-up trucks and cars
Boats - both floating and sunk (to include gasoline, oil, and anti-freeze leaked from engines)
Bottles, cans, and other various and sundry products that have been tossed or fallen from the beaches, docks, dams and boats.

Oh, and water.

24 posted on 05/21/2010 9:31:00 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Liberal Logic: Mandatory health insurance is constitutional - enforcing immigration law is not.)
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To: RC2

I went to the public pool when I was a kid and I’ll bet there was more harm in the over-chlorination than any germs it didn’t kill.

You sure as heck didn’t want to get water up your nose because it would burn for days.


25 posted on 05/21/2010 9:37:18 AM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: stillafreemind

Urine is only sterile until it gets to the bladder.
I remind you that the test for bladder/urethral infections is -— unrinalysis: examining the urine for bacteria.

But the article isn’t actually discussing that. It indicates the nitrogen in urine degrades the chlorine faster - meaning the cleaning power of the chlorine is diminished, hence increased risk of nasty water.

Nevertheless, the CDC discussing this is a major waste of time.


26 posted on 05/21/2010 9:47:17 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: HamiltonJay

The late great W.C. Fields was asked if he ever considered going on the water wagon to curb his prodigious drinking habit.

Concerning water, he replied “An abominable substance, my boy. Fish [fornicate] in it!”

;^)


27 posted on 05/21/2010 10:01:23 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: stillafreemind
Just the thought of going to a public swimming pool of any kind makes me ill.

Sure, use a private, home pool instead.


28 posted on 05/21/2010 10:06:24 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: dfwgator

Going to the woods to poop on a cool morning is referred to as going to “pinch off a steamer”, so pooping in the pool would be “clipping loose a floater” ?


29 posted on 05/21/2010 10:15:04 AM PDT by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion. Mamas don't let your cowboys grow up to be babies..)
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To: the invisib1e hand

I swim in the river which is full of who knows what. My drinking water comes from a well about 50 feet of the river. The only time we got sick (death would have been a relief) from the water was decades ago when “they” decided to bring in helicopters to poison the undesirable fish?!? First, there were no undesirable fish and second, PEOPLE GET THEIR DRINKING WATER FROM THE RIVER!!!


30 posted on 05/21/2010 10:20:10 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: stillafreemind

31 posted on 05/21/2010 10:23:19 AM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: jdub

Amen to that! It is absurd to let kids who are still in diapers in pools. Yuck. Besides, that it isn’t even safe for them, nor does it help them learn to swim. Kids can’t really learn to swim until their bodies are strong enough to hold up their heads properly - at least age 3.

Children have died from swallowing too much water in a pool, simply because they could not keep their heads out of the water.


32 posted on 05/21/2010 11:05:53 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Quickgun

Baby Ruth? lol


33 posted on 05/21/2010 12:34:41 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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