ROLE OF FILTRATION AND DISINFECTION IN CONTROLLING SWIMMING POOL WATER QUALITY

Abstract

A number of swimming pools are coming up because of a greater realisation of an important role played by a swimming pool in improving the social health of the community. The conditions in this .country are substantially different from the western developed countries most of which have cold climatic conditions. Our pools are usually not covered and are exposed to sunlight. The prevailing temperatures are also much high and as such it was necessary to critically examine the role of different units of the recirculating system in maintaining pool wE=6;e1.: cluality. Therefore tnis study was taken upto examine the exact role of filtration and disinfection in controlling swimming pool water quality, under the environment obtaining in this country. This work reviews available literature and Presents data collected at the two municipal swimming pools in Bombay- namely Ghatli_opar Swimming pool and Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Olympic Swimming pool radar Bombay. The study revealed that filtration has an important role to play in controlling pool water quality and that the water quality can not be maintained without filtration.