Category: Pool Tips
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Industry organizations educating swimmers to test your pool
Organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and the Water Quality and Health Council’s Healthy Pools initiative are urging swimmers and parents to start checking their public pools for proper water treatment. How are these groups educating swimmers to do this? The CDC’s guidelines include the following steps: Check the pool’s inspection results. Use pool…
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How to prevent swimmer’s ear
Swimmer’s ear is a common ear infection caused by water sitting in the outer ear canal growing bacteria. You can get swimmer’s ear from swimming in a pool, lake, river or other body of water where the water has bacteria and germs. With pools, swimmer’s ear can be avoided if the water is kept clean and free of…
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Five creative Father’s Day gift ideas
With Father’s Day approaching, surprise your father with a new and innovative gift he can enjoy the fresh summer weather with. We often purchase gifts for our significant others at the last minute, and it is a stressful challenge to make sure we get them something they will appreciate, and, more importantly, use. Forget getting…
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Prepping for swim season & educating your members
Summer is here and everyone wants to cool off at the pool! How have you prepared? Public pools need to protect against and prevent recreational water illness (RWIs), like Cryptosporidium parvum and E.coli. Here is a quick checklist. Clean: Keep pool deck clean of debris and fix cracked tile/concrete. If there is debris in the…
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Why the air in indoor pools can trigger asthma and allergies
It’s Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month, meaning no better time to talk about air quality in indoor pool facilities and the effect on swimmers and staff. In simple terms, it’s that pool smell we all recognize the second we walk into an indoor area with a pool, be it a hotel, recreation center, school or…
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Four safety tips to remember when planning your first pool party of the season
When I was eight or nine years old, I was at our pool with my younger brother and I noticed he was upside down in an inner tube with his little legs kicking furiously in the air. A lifeguard was watching in a chair right above him. It looked like my brother was just playing,…
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Five ways to make your pool more sustainable for Earth Day
Owning a swimming pool increases energy use, which costs money and resources. Here are five ways that you can save money and make your pool as sustainable as possible: Use alternative, renewable energy. Last week we highlighted a company that is using energy from underground computer servers to heat it’s pool. You can also opt for…
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Sustainable pools: The higher standard for 2016
The harmful impact of human activity on the environment — from exhaustion of natural resources to global warming to water pollution — means we must live more sustainably to save our planet. Today, sustainable living can be extended to our pools. When something is “sustainable,” by definition, it “conserves an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of…
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Simplifying pool management with Clear Comfort
There is little difference in the way a Clear Comfort pool is maintained and the way a traditionally-chlorinated or salt-chlorinated pool is maintained. With Clear Comfort you have the opportunity to eliminate the requirement for maintaining residual chlorine, including the associated storage and handling of the chemical and the resulting chlorine disinfection byproducts that are…
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Pool covers: A quick way to save energy
If you want to ensure your pool is more sustainable, an easy place to start is with a pool cover.