As the Olympics ticks along nicely, social media and all the memes making for great entertainment, the issue around Rio’s well-publicised water problems continues to grab headlines.

Yesterday we told you about the diving pool turning an embarrassing shade of green (HERE), along with a few humorous and serious suggestions as to why that was.

Now it’s the water polo pool that has decided to change colour, although not quite as drastically as the adjacent diving pool. This caused officials a real headache, with this below from the Wall Street Journal:

Officials scrambled to contain the new embarrassment…Wednesday, even as officials insisted they had the problem under control, they acknowledged that the problem was also affecting the adjoining water polo pool, which also displayed a greenish tint.

“Yesterday mid-afternoon there was a sudden decrease in the alkalinity of the pool,” said Mario Andrada, spokesman for the Rio 2016 Organizing [sic] Committee. “Obviously, the people in charge of maintaining the pool and of checking could and should have done more intensive tests.”

Andrada said the pool color would get back to normal “very shortly.” However, he added, Wednesday’s rain in Rio was complicating things.

This is the bit that may be a just a little worrying:

A pool consultant working for the Rio Organizing [sic] Committee said the change had come about as a result of workers seeking to make a last-minute improvement to the color and clarity of the water. The person added that certain unknown components of the city water that goes into the pool after treatment might have been responsible for the imbalance.

“If you bake a cake with too much flour,” the person said, “it’s going to turn out bad.”

The city’s water hasn’t exactly been written up in glowing terms thus far, but FINA (International Swimming Federation) and other bodies have been quick to clarify that the competitors competing in both pools are at no risk.

That’s probably true, but a little bit of you is still thinking you’re coming out with pink eye.

And now, a joke:

[sources:wsj&telegraph]