Water quality testing blog

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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With Labor Day approaching it signals the end of the summer pool season and pool owners dealing with water problems due to high temperatures. Pools are also at a higher risk this time of year due to algae.  Algae growth is a pool hazard in many ways.  Algae are a slip and fall hazard and [...]

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We found this story interesting and wanted to pass it along to our readers. Ready Made magazine did a story about converting old dumpsters into swimming pools for urban areas. The idea was started by a company called Macro-Sea.

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The readers of the leading consumer and business trade magazine, Pool & Spa News, selected the eXact® Micro 7+ photometer as one of “The Top 50 Products of 2009.” The annual reader’s choice award recognized the eXact® Micro 7+ for its accurate and reliable on-site water testing results. It’s an honor to be recognized by the [...]

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Community pools and playgrounds are part of America’s infrastructure and deserving of federal stimulus funding.

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