Dr. Ernest Blatchley

So my nose is almost useless.

But there are a lot of people who have very sensitive senses of smell for breathing.

even people that have relatively sensitive senses of smell, if you're smelling trichlorine, if you have that sort of chlorine odor in an indoor pool, it's probably at a concentration that's going to cause problems.

There are.

I mean, there are a lot of pools that use in their recirculating treatment systems UV to treat the water, and it has

some overlapping characteristics with chlorine.

But rather than remove chlorine from the pool, probably a better strategy is to use less chlorine and to improve the hygiene habits of the swimmers.

Because these reactions require both sets of reactants to be present, the chlorine and all those other things that are present in human body fluids.

So if we cut back on the human body fluids, I think it's likely to be probably a better solution than eliminating the chlorine.

And there certainly are pools.

I mean, you've probably been in pools where you can't smell that sort of characteristic odor.

And you've probably been around pools where that odor is pretty strong.

I would say maybe a good idea to avoid the latter.

Possibly.

I'm not going to address that.

Well, I mean, again, the hygiene thing is the best way to go.

But humans are sort of strange creatures in that we don't change our habits rapidly.

And those habits are formed over long periods of time.

So

There are technologies that will intentionally break those compounds down so that they don't have the opportunity to react with chlorine.