Pee-o-meter

It's (almost) summer. In fact, as the temperature reach 30 degrees in some parts of Holland today, it means we are having our first (unofficial) heatwave this year in the Netherlands. A heatwave means five consecutive days with temperature above 25 degrees and three days with the temperature above 30 degrees. To make it official, the temperature at De Bilt must register those values, which is not in the case this time. According to the KNMI record, June heatwave is unusual, only 8 heatwaves happened in June in the last 100 years. The last one was last year.

It is said there were 10 to 20 percent more elderly and sickly people die during heatwave. A lot of them were due to dehydration. You might think you drink enough fizzy drink, cold beer, or whatever nice cold beverage you can find. You can't be sure that you have enough liquid in your body as you sweat a lot under the heat and some of those drinks can act as diuretic.

So how do you know that you are dehydrated? Yorkshire Water a drink water company in -where else- Yorkshire, has developed a device to help people gauge their bodily fluid's color. The yellower the fluid means you need to drink more. You are dehydrated.

The company came up with three designs, for children, for female and for male. It is interesting to note, that on the flip side of the men's pee-o-meter they included a ruler for those who need reassurance in something else ;)