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 test strips to check pH and chlorine or bromine concentration are correct.
- pH 7.2–7.8
- Free chlorine concentration of at least 3 ppm in hot tubs/spas and at least 1 ppm in other places with treated water
- Free bromine concentration of at least 4 ppm in hot tubs/spas and at least 3 ppm in other places with treated water
- Make sure no chemicals are out in the open.
