The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: TomSea on March 02, 2017, 04:10:23 am
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How much pee is in our swimming pools? New urine test reveals the truth
Olympic swimmers admit to it and it seems many of the rest us are peeing in the water too, with a new scientific test finding up to 75 litres of urine in public pools
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
Wednesday 1 March 2017 08.00 EST
Last modified on Wednesday 1 March 2017 22.45 EST
It is an antisocial act that normally goes under the radar, but many swimmers have long suspected the truth: people are peeing in the pool.
Now scientists have been able to confirm the full extent of offending for the first time, after developing a test designed to estimate how much urine has been covertly added to a large volume of water. Regular swimmers with a keen sense of hygiene may wish to stop reading now.
The test works by measuring the concentration of an artificial sweetener, acesulfame potassium (ACE), that is commonly found in processed food and passes through the body unaltered.
Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/01/how-much-pee-is-in-our-swimming-pools-new-urine-test-reveals-the-truth
Seems a little too much but one has to try to comprehend the methodology.
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Don't know about US pools, but ours are populated with health nuts who don't tend to eat processed foods containing artificial sweeteners as their bodies are temples (a particularly apt description of the cult of self worship.)
So double the amount, at least. :tongue2:
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All I know is if you are in a pool and hit a 'warm spot', it's highly likely you found some... :terror: