People ask me all the time, "What is a salt pool?" Or, they tell me “my pool is safe because its a salt pool.” So I have decided to put some information here.

Unfortunately salt pools and some other nonchlorine systems are far from safe. Salt pools are a misnomer they should be called e-chlorine pools and they generate the same types of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) as traditional chlorinated pools. Haloketones and trihalomethanes (THMs) are two of the more toxic DBPs.

The system uses electricity to split table salt (NaCl) but that produces hypochlorous acid (HClO) and sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) directly in your pool water. Sodium hypochlorite is the ingredient in chlorine bleach and many pool chlorination chemicals. HClO is just the acid form. Which means a saltwater pool is not chlorine-free at all. It simply utilizes a chlorine generator and electricity instead of someone running down to the store and buying chlorine.

There is increasing awareness that DBPs produced in chlorinated swimming pools are toxic mutagens.  It has been reported that in one human study after a single swim, mutagenic events in the bloodstream could be detected.  Aquatic animals that fall into a traditional pool or a salt pool(e-chlorine pool) will quickly succumb to the toxic chlorine and appear drowned.  A salt pool is just more toxic chemicals through the magic of electricity.  Same thing with a UV filter, which produces ozone.  My friends; there just might be a reason something kills things whose cell structure is actually quite similar to our own.  If it kills it, it is toxic. PuraVida Aquatic's system out-competes the algae, it doesn't put toxic chemicals in to kill it. It doesn't have to.

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