CDC and Olympic Champion Amanda Beard team up for healthy swimming From CDC The documentation supporting nude showers and other preventative measures like refraining from urinating in swimming pools is manifold. Most people are aware that they need to do...
Check out this great article about Ozone and Ozonators by Kaisa Williams, Swimuniversity.com:
Ozone is a strong natural oxidizer which breaks down chemicals and bodily fluids, including:
soap
deodorant
hair spray
cologne
makeup
perfume
body lotion
hand cream
sun tan lotion
saliva and urine
When used in conjunction with your regular sanitizer, ozone helps kill pathogenic bacteria, germs, and viruses, as well as oxidizing organic contaminants. This leads to dramatically better water quality than you would have with just chlorine or bromine alone.
How Germs Get In The Swimming Pool, Scientific American via Huffington Post
By Larry Greenemeier
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As the summer winds down and Labor Day weekend approaches in the U.S., beaches and public pools will be filling up with swimmers looking to take one last dip outdoors before the season ends. Most people will hit the water without worrying about the microscopic organisms they'll be swimming with. Maybe that's for the best, considering what those organisms are and how they're introduced to swimming holes.
The protozoan organism Cryptosporidium, one of the most frequent causes of waterborne disease, has become a major problem in swimming pools, says Charles Gerba, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona who's spent decades studying how pathogens are transmitted. Crypto is a microscopic parasite with a tough outer shell that allows it to survive for days even in properly chlorinated pools.