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How Pool Pros Can Use UV Light to Treat Water

Alamy

Ultraviolet light has many uses, including inactivating parasites, bacteria and viruses. Learn the best practices for levering ultraviolet light to disinfect swimming pool water as well as how ultraviolet light sanitizes, the hardware needed and some of the challenges involved.

Robert C. Kappel

Ultraviolet light (UV) has many uses. Some people tan their bodies under ultraviolet light. Dentists use ultraviolet light to cure certain types of polymers used in dental procedures. Parasites, bacteria and viruses can be inactivated to make water safe to drink and recreate in, and organic contaminates can be oxidized. For this article, the focus will be on the disinfection of swimming pool water using ultraviolet light.

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