This is why you don’t have safe water to swim in

Rachel Silverstein for The New Tropic writes:

Going to the beach this summer has been pretty shitty.

The Florida Department of Health’s Healthy Beaches Program has issued more than a dozen swimming advisories for popular beaches after finding unsafe levels of Enterococcus bacteria, a bacteria often associated with poop. Reaching its peak last week, swim advisories were simultaneously in effect for eight Miami-Dade beaches.

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