You should wait at least 24 hours before jumping in the pool (unless you use a chlorine-free pool shock, in which case you ...

One of the most important parts of swimming pool maintenance is preventing bacterial and algae growth by shocking the water with granular pool shock chemicals or liquid chlorine. Pools typically need ...

Question: We have had our pool for five years now and have maintained the water to an acceptable level during that time. About seven months ago, we started to notice the pool surface getting streaks ...

May 6—It's going to cost you more than double to keep your freshwater swimming pool sanitized this summer over last year, experts say. That's because there is a national shortage of chlorine thanks to ...

Stuart Moore is looking for a little chlorine. Each day he twists the spigot on his garden hose, waits a few minutes, then captures the spray in a plastic pool-testing cylinder. He adds enough ...

An unprecedented chlorine shortage could affect summer swimming. Several factors, including COVID-19 and a massive fire at a chlorine plant, are responsible for the chlorine shortage. If you’re a pool ...

A hard-to-kill germ called Cryptosporidium can resist the chlorine disinfectant in swimming pools and is a leading cause of outbreaks linked to pools, federal health officials said Thursday. Hotel ...

Western Australia's Water Corporation has defended the quality of drinking water in an outback town, after one resident claimed the water had the same chlorine levels as her swimming pool. Kambalda ...