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by s4vi0r 2669 days ago
What's the harm in it? The amount of urine is negligible in relation to the water, and unless you're sick with a UTI or something urine is sterile anyways.

I don't get it the other way around - why do people freak out about it? I don't care one way or the other whatever or not people piss in the pool next to me - its like somebody splashing you with water in the middle of a rainstorm.
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r3dk1ng 2669 days ago
> urine is sterile

orly? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957746/

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GalacticDomin8r 2669 days ago
It's still pretty much the most sterile thing that comes off or out of a human. If you really want your pool to be clean, you should make it avoid skin contact.
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michaelmrose 2669 days ago
It reacts with Chlorine to produce an irritant that irritates your eyes and nose.
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dragonwriter 2669 days ago
> It reacts with Chlorine to produce an irritant that irritates your eyes and nose.

So does pretty much everything related to your body, including the stuff usually present on your skin, the outside of your eyes, and the inside of your nose, throat, and lungs.

Which is part of why chlorine itself is noted to be “irritating to the nose, throat, and lungs” and “[a] severe irritant of the eyes”, without any qualifications of “if first combined with urine.” [0]

And why, when chlorine was used as a chemical weapon in warfare, it wasn't as a chlorine-urine binary agent.

[0] https://www.cleartech.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/MSDS/Chlor...

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