Water quality of swimming pools in Athens area

Rigas, F; Mavridou, A; Zacharopoulos, A

dc.contributor.author	Rigas, F	en
dc.contributor.author	Mavridou, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Zacharopoulos, A	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:14:16Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:14:16Z
dc.date.issued	1998	en
dc.identifier.issn	09603123	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/12967
dc.subject	Hygiene	en
dc.subject	Swimming pools	en
dc.subject	Water quality	en
dc.subject.other	water	en
dc.subject.other	article	en
dc.subject.other	chemical parameters	en
dc.subject.other	chlorination	en
dc.subject.other	disinfection	en
dc.subject.other	filtration	en
dc.subject.other	greece	en
dc.subject.other	human	en
dc.subject.other	hygiene	en
dc.subject.other	microbiological parameters	en
dc.subject.other	nonhuman	en
dc.subject.other	oxidation reduction potential	en
dc.subject.other	personnel	en
dc.subject.other	pseudomonas	en
dc.subject.other	staphylococcus	en
dc.subject.other	staphylococcus aureus	en
dc.subject.other	swimming	en
dc.subject.other	swimming pool	en
dc.subject.other	turbidity	en
dc.subject.other	vocational education	en
dc.subject.other	water quality	en
dc.subject.other	water treatment	en
dc.title	Water quality of swimming pools in Athens area	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1080/09603129873525	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09603129873525	en
heal.publicationDate	1998	en
heal.abstract	In this work a representative sample of 11 indoor and outdoor swimming pools were investigated with respect to critical physicochemical, health-related, microbiological and technical parameters. These pools were used either as competition (athletic) or as recreation pools. Useful correlations of the above parameters were deduced and properly attributed. Results were checked against well-established standards, such as DIN 19643, showing poor compliance with them in all parameters investigated. Thus, compliance for health-related parameters varied from 0 to 100%, for physical and chemical parameters from 20 to 100%, for microbiological parameters from 45 to 91% and for technical parameters from 27 to 36%. The most critical parameters implicated for poor water quality were Redox potential, turbidity and the appearance of certain opportunistic pathogens (Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa). These were attributed to poor process design of pools and lack of sufficient vocational training of the technical personnel operating the water treatment installations.	en
heal.journalName	International Journal of Environmental Health Research	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1080/09603129873525	en
dc.identifier.volume	8	en
dc.identifier.issue	3	en
dc.identifier.spage	253	en
dc.identifier.epage	260	en