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Silver News
Centers for Disease Control
Warning on Swimming Pools:
Swim at Your Own Risk - Silver-Based Sanitation Systems the
Answer
June 10, 2003
(Washington, D.C. - June 10, 2003) Inadequate
cleaning and safeguarding of swimming pools may be exposing
millions of Americans to harmful bacteria that cause diarrhea
and other illnesses, according to a report released last week
by the U.S. Government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), in Atlanta, Georgia. A copy of the report, "Healthy
Swimming 2003" can be found at the CDC's web site at
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyswimming/.
According to the CDC report, last summer
in Florida, California and three other states, in more than
half of the public and semi-public swimming pools tested,
at least one serious problem with water quality, filtration
systems or staff training was found. Alarmingly, almost 10
percent of the pools had violations so severe that they were
immediately closed. The highest percentage of problems occurred
in children's wading pools, medical and therapy baths, and
hotel and motel bathing areas.
Silver-based water sanitation systems can
provide a safe swimming environment. The quest for healthful,
odor-free swimming pools began in the 1930s. The discovery
that silver and copper ions generated by a mild electric current
would adequately sanitize private swimming pools led to serious
interest in silver sanitation.
Silver-based sanitation systems are especially
welcome to indoor pool owners as they offer a healthful alternative
to caustic and odoriferous chlorine. Pool owners can avoid
these bacterial hazards by using silver-copper ion systems
approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and
certified by the National Sanitation Foundation International
(NSF). Bactericidal silver and copper do not evaporate in
the heat of summer nor over long periods during the winter
when pools are inactive.
Hundreds of thousands of satisfied swimming
pool users worldwide enjoy safe, healthful silver-based swimming
pool systems. Owners of silver-based sanitation systems are
enthusiastic because there is: 1) no caustic odor, 2) no corrosion
of nearby metals, 3) no staining of the skin and bleaching
of clothing, 4) less cost than chlorine chemicals, 5) no evaporation
of silver from the pool leaving the pool waters unprotected
(during winter, for example), 6) control of algae growth,
and 7) no formation of unwanted compounds.
Please email the Silver Institute at
info@silverinstitute.org for a list of suppliers of silver-based
swimming pool sanitation systems approved by the EPA and the
NSF.
 For
Further Information Contact: Mike DiRienzo
The Silver
Institute
1200 G Street, N.W., Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20005
Tel:
(202) 835-0185
Fax: (202) 835-0155
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