On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:46:38 EDT, Chip wrote:

These "Natural" pools are all over Europe and many of them are
commercial or municipalities owned.

That surprises me! I would think more people in a pool would mean
higher chances of contamination. I never swam in a pool in another
country that wasn't on an AFB and wouldn't have noticed. I also never
swam in a pool that wasn't treated with chlorine or ozone.

I'm sure they check the water.
Don't want to get sued! BTW, didn't you ever swim in a lake before they
all became polluted with industrial runoff? There were fish and other
critters in there, doing what fish and other critters do. I'm just
trying to re-create that.

It is a neat idea and yes I did swim in local creeks and lakes and so
did my father years before me, but he blamed swimming in one for the
case of typhoid fever he had as a child. I was vaccinated and thought
myself bullet proof.
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