MUNDANE MYSTERIES: How much water is in an Olympic sized pool?

swimmer in the Olympic swimming pool with clear blue water

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: How much water is in an Olympic sized pool?

While watching all the swimming, diving, and water polo in the summer Olympics this past week you’ve probably wondered at some point “how much water does it take to fill that thing?”

An Olympic pool has about 2.5 million liters of water. This is enough to fill up 8,200 bathtubs. That’s A LOT of bubble baths.

 

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