Swimming Pool Scene INDUSTRY NEWS
New Testament For Pool Bible
has not been completely rewritten in the past eight years. PWTAG’s core principles are re-stated in the
new, third edition, along with the necessary updating and broadening of scope to include swimming ponds as well as spas, hydrotherapy and other pools.
The UK’s
authoritative guidance on swimming pools and spas
“Dedicated solely to raising standards in swimming pool water treatment”
www.pwtag.org
Pool Water Treatment Advisory Group Email:
chair@pwtag.org
ABOVE: Commercial operators are looking forward to the updated edition of Swimming Pool Water. Pic. London Lido.
A new edition of PWTAG’s book, Swimming Pool Water, is published next month, with a launch event for the fact-packed guide that serves as the bible for the industry. Swimming Pool Water has a distinguished lineage. PWTAG’s fi rst book, Pool Water Guide, was published in 1995. That was the indirect descendant of ‘the blue book’ – The Purifi cation of the Water of Swimming Baths, fi rst published by the Ministry of Health in 1929. Pool Water Guide sold out in four years - 4,000 copies – and was followed, at twice the size, by the fi rst edition of Swimming Pool Water. That sold another 9,000 copies, remaining an authoritative, reassuring companion for all whose work involves designing, operating or scrutinising swimming pools.
The second edition, in 2009, sold a further
10,000 copies. Its guidance has been codifi ed in PWTAG’s online Code of practice; and accreditation scheme, Poolmark, draws on both. The need for good design; careful attention to planned bathing load and the right hydraulics; good fi ltration, disinfection and monitoring; getting swimmers to get clean before they swim; excellent training and management – the book on safety measures
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This edition also attempts to incorporate the latest innovations within the industry. For the fi rst time, Swimming Pool Water includes direct input from the pool industry via PWTAG’s Industry Forum and has been part-funded by sponsors, Nuffi eld Health and Prominent Fluid Controls.
NEW DETAIL
Management and training has required new detail, to bring it in line with current pressures and responsibilities. Filtration refl ects the introduction of new methods. Disinfection is still central, and new material on UV refl ects its overtaking of ozone as the chosen form of secondary disinfection. But throughout, the text has been reviewed, revised and added to. The book is some 80 pages longer than the previous edition, and at £65 the price has gone up just proportionately. You can be among the fi rst to get a copy, and have the opportunity to hear key speakers discuss its signifi cance, at a launch conference on Wednesday November 22nd at Drayton Manor in Staffordshire (near Tamworth). The delegate price of £135 includes a free copy of the book.
Details on
www.pwtag.org.uk.
ABOVE: PWTAG’s core principles are re-stated in the new edition of Swimming Pool Water. Pic. Hydrospec and Fairfi eld Leisure Centre.
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