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A lot of pools are unnecessary too. The vast majority of cities have some water feature that I guarantee people used to swim in before we started dumping our shit and various poisons in them. Usually they are accessible to everyone and they could be again if we just cleaned up our act. Especially in the age of extreme heat having free swimming areas accessible to everyone would be a big deal.
Cities have always dumped their shit into the river, it's half the reason to build a city there.
To say nothing of the fact that having a pool you can chlorinate is less likely to get someone sick, you can't treat natural water the same way
What if we try hydrogen peroxide
Sure but when it was only a few people it wasn't as much of an issue. And the pollution part is new.
We can make them clean enough to swim in again if we want to. It's totally doable.
I'll have what you're smoking. Spend a week in NYC and tell me we can make that water clean. I grew up on Long Island Sound, and the entire coast of CT dumps literal raw shit into the sound when it rains too much.
I mean yeah we'll have to stop doing that...
This may shock you but I have been to NYC before.
Those can be dangerous. There's a "river" (it's rather tiny for a river, but big for a crew or steam, and is named a river) near me that has walkways around it. One of the larger sections that had a sorta beach used to be available to public was closed a year or two back due to erosion and an E.Coli outbreak.
Lots of rivers also have hidden dangers like strainers, undercut rocks, eddy fences, etc. Pools are generally controlled environments, so some may consider them to be preferable for safety.
Where do you think the e. Coli comes from? This is exactly what I'm complaining about...
Some are dangerous yes but most cities are in flat areas where they're fairly safe for a proficient swimmer. Proficiency that would be easier to obtain if anyone could swim there for free.
you cant filter or chlorinate a river/lake, and you cant put anti-slip tiles around one
pools' artificiality is useful and lets proper safety precautions be taken
Like the good old Broad Street pump.
The only time that would be was before the city existed. Sure we got carried away with chemicals in the 19th and 20th century, but before then a large portion of a city's trash and poop ended up in the nearest body of water. Just dumped straight in. Don't forget all the horse poop people had to deal with when that was the main transport system.
There was a reason diseases like cholera used to be such an issue.
Honestly I'd rather swim in the Hudson next to Manhattan today than in 1750.
Yes I am talking about when populations were way lower but my point is with modern governance and technology it's totally possible to have clean natural bodies of water for swimming again.