Category: Water tech
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Secondary Sanitation: A civic responsibility for aquatic professionals
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention developed the Model Aquatic Health Code to educate state and local authorities on safe and healthy best pool practices. With the MAHC, the CDC aims to decrease the amount of recreational water illness (RWI) outbreaks in public pools using traditional chlorine sanitation. MAHC recommends both primary and secondary disinfection…
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Pool System Comparison: Ozone + UV AOP vs Clear Comfort AOP
To keep up with pool and spa owners’ demands for a healthier, chlorine-free or low-chlorine pool, many pool companies have researched and developed chlorine alternative pool sanitation products. In search of a solution, some pool companies have paired their existing pool technologies together — and one increasingly common solution has been to combine UV and…
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Making your aquatics facility more sustainable in 2017
Is 2017 the year you focus on improving sustainability in your aquatic facility? Here are some ways to make your pool more efficient and eco-friendly. Use Renewable Energy & Efficient Energy Use solar pool heaters to heat the pool combined with a pool cover at night to keep the water warm, reducing energy costs and heat…
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Best pool products and tech of 2016
Taking into account technological advancements, outside the box thinking and practical tools, here is our selection of the best pool products of 2016: Remote Control Skimmer. This outside-the-box idea turns a routine chore into a fun and productive game. Floating Pool Speakers. Swim and listen to your favorite tunes! Even better, you can change the…
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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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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…