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Please refrain from eating while reading this. As the classic children’s book reminds us: everyone poops. But that doesn’t mean we want to swim in it. That’s why a recent report reminding us about the infestation of human waste in Gulf waters has us grimacing. In 2022, sixty-one Texas beaches were tested for fecal indicator bacteria, according to Environment Texas, a nonprofit based in Austin. Potentially unsafe levels of fecal contamination were recorded for at least one day in 90 percent of beaches tested. These findings mean the water at most Texas beaches exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency’s enterococcus “Beach Action Value,” a conservative metric states can use to issue advisories and protect people from swimming in potentially unsafe waters. Along the Texas coastline, Cole Park in Nueces…

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