Some swimming immediately strikes us as a bad idea. You wouldn’t wade in an abandoned swimming pool of stagnant mud-smelling water, or in a pond in the middle of the forest, lest you come out with a few unhygienic surprises. But did you know that in the turquoise sea, the bright blue pool and the seemingly clean lake are also nestled many microbial delights?
Chlorine is not effective against all bacteria
This is particularly what a publication recalls published on the Ars Technica websiteaccording to a Virginia Department of Health advertising campaign: chlorine is not instantly effective against bacteria, germs can survive in a swimming pool… for several days ! So as a reminder, do not drink the water in which you bathe.
Not to mention that the water where you bathe this summer will surely contain the excrement of a child who could not contain himself, but also sunscreen, sweatspit loaded with microbes, not to mention the hair and all those hands that will have dabbled in it after collecting 5 million microbes…
Sources: Ars Technica, Bathing health.gouv
