When someone offers you the opportunity to swim in "crypto," make sure you find out specifically what is meant by "crypto." Swimming in cryptocurrency could be good. Swimming in Cryptosporidium would ...

A few years back, the District renovated the Francis pool, at 25th and N Streets NW, to include a wade-in kiddie area. The change ushered in a major demographic shift at a pool that was once the ...

New Yorkers lounging at Big Apple pools Monday slammed new federal warnings against swimming with diarrhea as “unnecessary” — but admitted that trips to public baths can often be a crapshoot. “I feel ...

Somewhere in America this summer, a small child will have a diarrhea incident in a pool. The kid will freeze, waiting for that embarrassing blob of shame to envelop them, forever labeling them a ...

Another reason, beyond showing you’ve advanced past potty training, that you don’t use the pool as a toilet: cryptosporidium, the dung-carried, diarrhea-bringing parasite that the CDC says has been ...

Here's some more fodder for discussion about the newly reopened McCarren Park Pool. The facility, which just had a multi-year $50 million renovation, has been the site of attacks on lifeguards, long ...

While merrymakers seem to be having good clean fun in the pool, some are actually doing cringy stuff. Many swimmers are using the pool to wash their feet or their sandals, clogging the water with dirt ...

Oops! Ali Fedotowsky’s 21-month-old son, Riley, pooped in the hotel pool during a Hawaiian family vacation after three days of constipation. “So Riley finally ...