| You may think a salt water pool is your only | | | | stained from the water splashing out from a salt |
| choice when you decide on an addition of a | | | | water pool. |
| swimming pool to your home. In fact, a salt | | | | As well as decorative items becoming stained and |
| water pool is not your only choice. A natural pool | | | | faded, so will your bathing suits and bathing gear |
| alternative is more environmentally friendly and | | | | that you take in the pool with you. When you |
| friendlier to your skin. A salt water pool can dry | | | | emerge from a salt water pool, your skin needs |
| your skin and irritate your eyes. | | | | to be rinsed off immediately to try to combat |
| A salt water pool needs chlorine to remove | | | | the effects of the chemicals contained in the |
| bacteria, algae, and viruses that will find their way | | | | water on your skin. |
| to your pool water. Chlorine is dangerous to | | | | A salt water pool system is affected by the |
| handle and the fumes from chlorine can cause | | | | number of people in the pool at one time, the |
| harm to your lungs. Chlorine can bring serious | | | | weather temperature, and whether the sun is |
| breathing problems to those who experience | | | | shining on your pool or if it is raining. Depending on |
| asthma or allergies. | | | | these factors, a salt water pool system needs to |
| A salt water pool also has the disadvantages of | | | | be watched and adjusted for any of these |
| staining your pool walls and adding calcium deposit | | | | variable conditions. A natural pool that is cleaned |
| build-ups to your walls and pool system. Chlorine | | | | by an ionic water purification system using copper |
| and salt are corrosive chemicals that can actually | | | | ions and natural oxygen is not affected by these |
| cause damage to your pool equipment. If a salt | | | | variables. It remains in a natural constant state of |
| water pool can cause your pool equipment to | | | | cleanliness and clearness simply by design of the |
| corrode, what does it do to your skin? It is | | | | cleaning mechanisms. |
| especially worrisome when young children spend a | | | | Along with the inner workings of the pool |
| great amount of time each day in the pool. | | | | equipment, a salt water pool can damage and |
| If you have decorative rock or other decorative | | | | substantially shorten the lives of an automatic pool |
| features around a salt water pool, the chemical | | | | cover or a vinyl pool cover. Solar covers can be |
| compounds used to treat your water will have | | | | damaged as well. A salt water pool is just not the |
| the effect of "breaking-up" your decorative | | | | best way to go, especially these days when you |
| landscaping. The rock will begin to chip away from | | | | have other no-chemical and no-chlorine swimming |
| corrosion. As well, if you have vegetation close to | | | | pool alternatives. No-chemical and no-chlorine |
| a salt water pool, any backwash or water | | | | cleaning systems also use less power to run that |
| splashing out of the pool will kill your greenery. | | | | a salt water pool system. |
| Even artificial greenery can be damaged and | | | | |