A clear guide to pool maintenance and the chemicals involved.

Trouble-Free Pools Website and Discussion Forum

A good, informative site for quantitative practices in operating pools manitained by Richard Falk. http://www.troublefreepools.com/viewtopic.php?t=628

PPOA (Professional Pool Operators of America)

Excellent series of articles by Kent Williams and others, providing very accurate technical information in technical language accessible to any Chemistry student.

On-line information appears as columns in the Pumproom Press, the trade paper for this organization

Go to http://www.ppoa.org . click on the link to "Tech Articles". This will access the following links (and more):

Tech Articles
What is Alkalinity 1
What is Alkalinity 2

A detailed discussion of the pros and cons of using cyanuric acid as a chlorine "stabilizer"
Cyanurics .. Benefactor or Bomb?

What's all this nonsense about green hair being caused by chlorine?
http://ppoa.org/?page_id=498

A New Approach to the General Chemistry Laboratory
Joseph F. Bieron, Paul J. McCarthy, and Thomas W. Kermis
Canisius College, Buffalo, NY 14208
...................describes their chemistry course that involves a unit on Pool management.
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/1996/Nov/abs1021.html

Explanation of the use of thiosulfate in reducing chloramine levels etc. in a pdf document
http://www.pmlprocess.com/Industry_Applications/ZA_applic_Odour_Control_in_WWT_RevC_A.pdf

ASTHMA and Chlorine ??:
[See a recent summary study on the links between asthma in swimmers and exposure to chloramines at: Childhood Asthma and Environmental Exposures at Swimming Pools: State of the Science and Research Recommendations

DRINKING WATER

Health Canada
A fascinating site for many reasons. Many factsheets are available for downloading in pdf format. Most water references here are for Drinking Water.
Drinking Water and Your Health
Sample: Drinking Water Chlorination

CBC News backgrounder on drinking water issues especially E Coli contamination at Walkerton Ontario. Very complete and with many good links:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/walkerton/

see also:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/walkerton/links.html

City of Virginia Beach has converted from using chlorine to using chloramines in drinking water treatment. This site is an excellent starting point to enter the debate about the use of chloramines in drinking water.
http://www.vbgov.com/dept/putility/chloramine/default.asp

Another useful link:
http://sciborg.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/applychem/watertreatment.html

WASTEWATER TREATMENT

Ames City, Iowa has an excellent site describing their water works and pollution control facilities. It also provides a very complete set of links to sites that are concerned with drinking and wastewater quality.
http://www.city.ames.ia.us/waterweb/default.htm
http://www.city.ames.ia.us/waterweb/links.htm

OTHER USEFUL LINKS:

100+ Ideas to Conserve Water at Home  (A useful summary of ecologically sound practices to conserve water at home. A well organized discussion of the uses of and ways to save water in various areas of a typical home and a good summary of the reasons that water conservation is important.)