DailyDirt: Dropping Off Kids At The Pool...?

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The US has hundreds of thousands of swimming pools -- roughly 309,000 public pools and 10.4 million residential pools. It's a nice way to cool down on a hot summer day, but it's also kinda gross if you think about sharing germs with all the people swimming in the pool. At least there's no danger of getting attacked by sharks in a pool, but if you're paranoid about pool safety, check out a few of these links. (And perhaps try to stick with pools that use salt water chlorination.) After you've finished checking out those links, take a look at our Daily Deals for cool gadgets and other awesome stuff.
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Filed Under: cdc, chlorinated water, cryptosporidium, cyanogen chloride, disease, health, pool, swimming, trichloramine


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    Anonymous Coward, 7 Jul 2015 @ 11:27pm

    Lakes and rivers and oceans aren't exactly pure and clean either. Sometimes you just gotta take a few risks.

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      Anonymous Coward, 8 Jul 2015 @ 6:06am

      Re:

      With bigger bodies of water and moving waters you at least got the chance that anything nasty might get diluted more quickly.
      If you are swimming downriver from a raw sewage pipe you have some more risks.

      In my home town we had a itty bitty kiddy pool for the toddler range kids which was already painted straight yellow and was almost always at body temperature.

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    Pixelation, 8 Jul 2015 @ 8:38am

    90%

    90% of people admit to peeing in the pool. The other 10% don't swim...

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    Anonymous Coward, 8 Jul 2015 @ 3:58pm

    red eyes after a swim is more likely a Ph imbalance.

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