U.S. rowers' new uniforms help protect from sewage

The United States' Olympic rowing squad will be wearing new uniforms in Rio amid concerns about the quality and safety of the water.

"We put a waterproofing agent on (them) so the suit is waterproof, so even though it is getting wet it doesn't absorb water," Keith Sherill of Charlotte-based textile company Speizman International told WTHR.

"So that being said, it's almost virtually always dry."

A local pediatrician in Rio told Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times that Olympic aquatic athletes will "literally be swimming in human crap" in a story published Tuesday.

An open sewer was spotted near the athletes' village earlier this week.