Water Chemistry

While pool safety is the #1 priority of pool ownership, pool maintenance is also high on the list of priorities. To be able to maintain your pool, you must be able to maintain the water in your pool.

As you gain an understanding of the water in your pool, you will better be able to understand how to maintain optimal water chemistry.

For a pool, water chemistry is maintaining a proper sanitizer level as well as proper water balance. While oxidizing (shocking) the pool isn't always considered an actual category for water chemistry, it is very important so that your sanitizer will work as intended.

Achieving optimal water chemistry is never as easy as adding “one-pound of this” or "one quart of that" periodically. The reality is that achieving optimal water chemistry will take some time and effort from you to maintain on a constant basis. But, if you know what you're doing, it really is minimal time and effort.

This manual will help you not only understand water chemistry in general, but will also help you maintain optimal water chemistry in your pool.

Professional water chemists have written exhaustive and lengthy books about water chemistry, but a lot of the content deals with the science of water, water treatment facilities, and all of the care and effort that goes into safe water supplies, the safe distribution of water to your home, and safe drinking water. For a swimming pool, as long as you know the core basics of water chemistry, then you will be just fine maintaining that water chemistry, which will help ensure that your pool water is clean, clear, and safe for swimming.

Within this pool manual, the following information is available about water chemistry: