Fresh or Salt Water Pools, which is Best for the Environment?
Fresh water pools are of course most common. A resort in Chile has built the “world’s largest swimming pool” which is right next to the ocean. Freshwater pools, with their use of chlorine have only one draw back, they give off a horrible smell of chlorine when you need to clean the water. Chlorine is above all one of the worst products on the earth and should never be used in laundry or even in your pool water. Of course, if you go with fresh water, there’s a company out there that make chlorine alternative, such as Earth Stone that uses the power of your own “elbow grease” to get your pool crystal clear.
The salt water route gives you the choice of totally doing away with the chlorine or even cleaning your pool as often. But as the same as fresh water swimming pools, the salt water pool with its salt system converts salt into chlorine. So you are still dealing with chlorine just with a different approach to chlorine.
Chlorine is a harmful and very irritating chemical and whether it’s with a salt water pool, converting the salt to chlorine or in a fresh water pool, where you drop in the tablets, neither pool choice is the best way to go. But, what is the best approach to pools?
There is a company out on the market calling themselves Eco Smarte and they offer a chemical free pools system and have found a way to bypass any chlorine use what-so-ever. How? By using oxygen that is not only safer than chlorine it’s better for the environment. You won’t be introducing chemicals to your pool that will damage your equipment or even cause irritation to the skin.
*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: Never flush unnecessary items in the toilet. According to Ideal Bite, the water treatment employees have to sift through certain items such as condoms and use unnecessary energy to do this. So the next time you are unsure where to place something, place it in your trashcan instead not in the toilet.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Great post about energy saving tips on swimming pools. For more information you can visit http://www.swimuniversity.com/water_chemistry/pool_energy_saving_tips.html