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hman:

“Sometimes we treat pools like toilets. Sometimes we defecate in the pools, we sometimes urinate in the pool and I think we don’t realize we share the water we swim in,” said Michele Hlavsa, chief of the CDC’s Healthy Swimming Program based in Atlanta.

Totes! WNYC: In City Pools, Keeping Conditions Sanitary Is a Daily Struggle

hman:

“Sometimes we treat pools like toilets. Sometimes we defecate in the pools, we sometimes urinate in the pool and I think we don’t realize we share the water we swim in,” said Michele Hlavsa, chief of the CDC’s Healthy Swimming Program based in Atlanta.

Totes! WNYC: In City Pools, Keeping Conditions Sanitary Is a Daily Struggle

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  3. somethingthatwontdrown reblogged this from iknowhowyoufeelman and added:
    No puking either! It should be said that I don’t really care what people do in FDR pool, because I don’t swim in it, nor...
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  5. movierich reblogged this from wnyc and added:
    Ew.
  6. iknowhowyoufeelman reblogged this from wnyc and added:
    cc: Joe
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    Totes! WNYC: In City Pools, Keeping Conditions Sanitary Is a Daily Struggle
  8. womaninterrupted said: Yuck. And no, no we don’t. Who treats the pool like a toilet? You don’t swim in a toilet.