Water quality testing blog

The International Pool and Spa Patio Expo (IPSPE) is the largest pool and spa show in the country with over 500 exhibiting companies, over 1,200 booths and 9,400 attendees from all over the world. Last week our new Pool Check®-i test strip analyzer was awarded first place for the best new product of the 2011 show. The Pool [...]

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Our latest innovation in test strips, the Pool Check® 4+ Pool & Spa Test Strips, Tests 4 important parameters with one strip: Total Alkalinity, Free Chlorine, pH and Cyanuric Acid. Fast and reliable results 20 second procedure U.S. Patented performance 50 test strips per bottle Easy color matching Stop by our IPSPE booth #1414 this [...]

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Here’s our latest video on the new eXact Micro 10 Photometer for pool water testing. The eXact® Micro 10 photometer is the first meter developed to measure combined chlorine directly with 0.01 precision and no math! It uses the ITS patented test strip method and technologies that offer faster, safer, easier, and more precise water [...]

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The readers of the leading pool and spa business and consumer trade magazine, Pool & Spa News, selected the new eXact® Micro 10 photometer as one of “The Top 50 Products of 2011.” The annual readers’ choice award recognized the eXact® Micro 10 for its accurate and reliable on-site water testing results. It’s the first meter [...]

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We’d like to share this customer testismonal with you from Bill Horan, President of Operation Blessing International. Bill leads one of many relief efforts in Haiti with a focus on delivering clean drinking water. He is using our eXact Micro 7+ and Chlorine photometers for field testing. Port-au-Prince Haiti Dear Ivars, It was such a great [...]

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President Ivars Jaunakais gave a presentation on detecting iron and phosphates in pool water at the annual  World Health Aquatics Conference. The conference is organized by The National Swimming Pool Foundation®, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving public health worldwide by attracting more people to safer aquatic environments. Click here to download his presentation (PDF [...]

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President Ivars Jaunakais wrote an article on Iron and Phosphates in Pool environments for Canadian Pool and Spa Marketing Magazine. He’ll be speaking about the subject indepth next weekend at the 2009 World Aquatic Health™ Conference in Atlanta.

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Another environmentally friendly and off beat story in swimming pools, A Minnesota company, Creative Water Solutions, envisions will keep tens of thousands of swimming pools clean while drastically reducing the use of chlorine by adding sphagnum moss to pool water. Moss keeps a pool’s biofilms under control, using less chlorine  – just enough to kill [...]

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A study published this week by Alfred Bernard, PhD, of Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, examined 847 students aged 13 to 18 who went swimming in outdoor and indoor chlorinated pools. He found Chlorine may contribute to risk for asthma and nasal allergies to children. His report was published in the Sept. 14 [...]

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A low cost alternative is becoming popular for cleaning foreclosed pools in Florida using an algae eating catfish.

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