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Scary: Doctor Says There’s More Chlorine in Drinking Water Than Your Average Chlorinated Swimming Pool
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 83969347:MV81MjEwNjgzXzk1ODcwOTk3XzE4MzIzMTVG] I think something is off here. Chlorine smells when it is still in its' active germ killing form. If you open a bag of pure chlorine crystals (like pool shock for instance) you instantly smell a very strong chlorine smell. Once added to a pool of water it begins reacting with bacteria and other stuff in the water and it slowly oxidizes and changes to a form that has no smell. A pool smells strongest of chlorine when the water is perfectly clean and chlorine has just been added to the water to the proper level. From that point on the chlorine slowly disipates into the air and/or begins oxidizing any contaminates that end up in the water from swimmers and the chlorine smell slowly diminishes. This dynamic is why more chlorine needs to be added to the pool periodically to maintain the recommended levels of free chlorine at all times. Also, public swimming pools usually maintain 3-5ppm of free available chlorine in the water at all times. Chlorine levels in drinking water are considered unsafe for regular drinking above 4ppm, so the EPA has set 4ppm as the max allowable chlorine level for drinking water. Most municipalities gear for somewhere around 2ppm of free chlorine in drinking water, because if they go up to 3ppm or so many epople start smelling in in the water when taking a shower. In other words, public swimming pools almost always have higher chlorine levels than tap water. [/quote]
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DEAR DR. ROACH: On vacation, or when swimming in a chlorinated pool, the question often arises: How does a quick shower compare to a half hour of swimming in a properly chlorinated private pool, which leaves you cleaner? I understand that soap and physically scrubbing your body could affect your cleanliness. -- R.H.
ANSWER: Chlorine in a swimming pool is added to keep you safe from germs in water.
The amount of chlorine is just a bit less than the chlorine in drinking water.
This is a surprise to people who have found that pool water hurts their eyes. The reason is that skin cells (and sweat, lotions and, yes, urine from swimmers) react with the chlorine in the pool to form substances called chloramines. These are what cause the irritation and cause you to have that chlorine odor when you get out of the pool.
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