The essential guide for everyone involved in the design, treatment, management and scrutiny of pools of all sorts – expanded, refined, updated, still authoritative

Swimming Pool Water was first published in 1999 and its unchallenged reputation has earned it sales of over 8,000 copies. Ten years on, the principles of pool water treatment have barely changed, but there are new developments, new ideas, new research, new concerns – new challenges.

For the past three years, the Pool Water Treatment Advisory Group has been working on this new, second edition. Truly a labour of love: PWTAG’s experts have given their time freely and generously, against a background of change.

The new edition, at 190 pages, is over 50 pages longer than the last. The new material is a rewarding mixture. There is more information in familiar areas – updated and refined where necessary. And there are new areas altogether. The rather different emphasis of the new edition is indicated by its longer subtitle – Treatment and quality standards for pools and spas. The new book has totally new chapters on spas and wide variety of other pools – as well as on other topics.

• What is a swimming pool? The principles of swimming pool construction and water treatment.
  
• Dealing with outbreaks What causes them and how to deal with them – including definitive advice on faecal contamination
  
• Spa pools Commercial and domestic hot tubs
  
• Leisure pools Including water features
  
• Hydrotherapy pools
  
• Outdoor swimming and paddling pools
  
• Pools in other locations Hotels, schools, holiday camp, ships, upgrading
  
• Domestic pools
  
• Interactive water features and play equipment
  
• The pool in its environment Looking into the future at issues like lighting and energy conservation

And seven other chapters have been substantially updated:

• Types of pool – A-Z
  
• Management and training – including more on management systems
  
• Filtration – incorporating lessons from recent PWTAG research
  
• Disinfection – including a review of new disinfection treatments
  
• Pool water chemistry – includes a review of the health effects of disinfection byproducts
  
• Healthy swimming – updated material on microbiology (including Cryptosporidium), asthma and infections
  
• Pool chemical safety - uptodate advice on regulations, delivery, storage; plus the definitive chart of recommended pool chemicals

• What is a swimming pool?
  
• Types of pool
  
• Pollution and hygiene
  
• Management
  
• Design
  
• Hydraulics
  
• Filtration
  
• Disinfection
  
• Dosing
  
• Pool water chemistry
  
• Testing and controlling pool water chemistry
  
• Healthy swimming
  
• Dealing with outbreaks
  
• Microbiological testing
  
• Pool chemical safety

• Plant maintenance
  
• Cleaning
  
• Personal protection, emergency procedures
  
• Spa pools
  
• Leisure pools
  
• Hydrotherapy pools
  
• Outdoor swimming and paddling pools
  
• Pools in other locations
  
• Domestic pools
  
• Interactive water features and play equipment
  
• The pool in its environment
  
• Problem sorter
  
• Bibliography
  
• Glossary / Index

The books published by PWTAG in the past - Ozone Water Treatment for Swimming Pools: a National Survey (1986) and the 1990 book Pool Monitor - are now officially out of print, inquiries to PWTAG Secretary.

Great Lengths by Dr Ian Gordon and Simon Inglis