Do They Put Chemicals In Pools That Turn Urine Blue

The eternal lie of the pools that turn blue if you pee in them.

Do they put chemicals in pools that turn urine blue.

There s a special dye in there designed to detect urine and it ll billow around you in a big embarrassing pissy cloud and everyone will know you ve done it and you ll be hounded out of town as a known pool piddler. There aredyes which could cloud change color or produce a color in response to urine but these chemicals would also be activated by other compounds producing embarrassing false positives. Everyone knows public pools have a secret chemical that turns a different color in the presence of pee. The water quality and health council recently found that almost half of all respondents believed the blue pee propaganda making it the most common pool myth of all time in fact there is no such chemical.

In an article published in 2000 snopes confirmed such a dye did not exist. If you pee in the pool it ll go blue. There is no chemical which changes color when someone urinates in a swimming pool. Everyone knows about urine indicator dye despite the fact that it has 100 percent never existed.