I love the selective invoking of "we need to do it for the kids/if it saves one life then it's worth it"
Why are they not banning private pools ? after all public pools are available with lifeguards... no one need their own pool!
Centers for Disease Control report that here in the United States, on average, 3,536 people died from drowning annually from 2005 to 2014, which equates to 10 deaths each day. Then there are the thousands of others who suffer swimming pool-related injuries each year. Drowning is the number one cause of unintentional death for children between the ages of 1 and 4.
74 percent of fatal pool accidents occurred at residential locations