Peeing in the Pool. What Can Be Done?
Peeing in the Pool. What Can Be Done?
A passionate plea from a former swimmer, swim coach, and now pool design professional. Please, the culturally accepted practice of peeing in the pool needs to stop! My body can’t take the chlorine cough anymore!
There are a lot of great cultural aspects that make swimming one of the best sports. Hard work, intelligence, support, and drive are words that could be used to describe any swim team in the country.
At any college campus across the country, you can count on the swim team to lead the way in hours put into their sport, GPA on campus, and community service. You can also count on them to swim in their own filth for 4 hours a day.
Let’s put this into perspective. My own brother won’t eat fish because they spend their entire life in their own waste. However, he will be one of the first to announce to the entire pool, that he just used your water space as a bathroom. This needs to stop.
Below are some of the misconceptions of peeing in the pool that we need to forget and some of the new behaviors we need to develop to fix the problem.
