I recently wrote about how a study found that New York’s public pools provide the city’s residents with a place to cool off during the hot summer months, while occasionally being disgusting cesspools of poop and pee.
But it’s not just New York City’s pools. This goes for all pubic pools.
Writing in The Conversation, Lisa Cuchara, a professor of biomedical science at Quinnipiac University, says that public pools, and by extension, pretty much all pools, are a diluted soup of sweat, sunscreen, and disconcertingly vague “bodily substances.”…