Are the public pools healthy? Did you know that chemically treated pools have higher incidence of outbreaks than untreated ones. Chlorine resistant bacteria that can live in treated pools, caused about half of the outbreaks in treated pools, according to the report. And what about the red burning eyes? Yep they can be caused by the chlorine but guess where most of it come from, urine! So what is the solution? Keep it clean! Take a shower, don't urinate, stay away if you have GI problems.