So, we're sure your momma told you not to pee in the swimming pool--but did she also tell you it's bad to pee in a lake? Down in Australia, the beautiful Basin Lake on Fraser Island off Queensland isn't doing well these days, and one of the causes is high levels of urine in the water.

The official word is that too many tourists are using the lake as a toilet and that's led the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service to consider closing one of the access tracks to reduce visitor numbers.

Right now 35,000 people visit the lake every year and since there's no in- or outflow from the lake, whatever goes in, stays in. Our alternative suggestion is to simply stick up a big notice advertising the current urine levels in the lake. We're fairly sure most people would skip the swim.

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· Sunscreen, Urine Damaging Fraser Island Lake [ABC]
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Kate Hudson has been hitting parties solo--from hotel openings to birthday parties at Marquee, while many are speculating that this means her relationship with Owen Wilson is over, we are speculating that she is simply hiding from Irukandji jellyfish.

Not only have packs of killer jellyfish kept Hudson safely ensconced in the New York club scene, but the Irukadnji are also reeking havoc on with her work schedule schedule -- Hudson was set to shoot "Fool's Gold" with her "How To Lose A Guy in Ten Days" costar Matthew McConaughey, but the project had to be put on the backburner according to Defamer because the Irukandji jellyfish were found off Fraser Island in Australia, the Queensland tourist destination where the film was to be shot. On the bright side, Owen Wilson has pledged to kill every last jellyfish with a single spear, in hopes of keeping his romance alive.

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