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Letter: Ick! Can you please shower before entering swimming pools

North Shore swimmers should be making more use of the on-site showers prior to dipping, this reader says
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A North Vancouver resident is questioning the hygiene practices of local swimmers. | (via Shutterstock)

Dear Editor,

I swam in the Lake at Pokara in Nepal and bathed many times in the Narmada River in India without fatal consequences.

So swimming in chlorinated pools in North and West Vancouver is unlikely to do me in either.

But I just wish more people would shower off before entering the swimming pools.

Even class groups for swimming lessons often enter the pool directly and completely dry!

Sheila Ward
North Vancouver

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