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From the article: The official line from the IOC is that they didn’t compensate for the number of athletes competing in the Games’ pools. “The alkaline levels went up because we had a far bigger number of athletes, so we didn’t use as many chemicals as we should,” said Andrada.
What? It isn't like you invited a few friends over to swim in your pool and ended up with dozens of people swimming in the pool.
Oh Dear God. From the article " chemistry is not an exact science "
Any chemists here care to chime in on that?
Because I don't think I've ever heard that from a guy trying to fix a green pool before.
I'm no chemist but I have treated pool water at home before and now run an hour of chemical water test for the hospital's boilers, cooling towers, potable water, steam condensate, and desilizier (boiler water treatment to remove silica). We test this every night and make necessary adjustments on our chemical pumps to maintain proper pH, P&M, conductivity, silica, chlorides, and other readings. If starting from scratch it'll take time to get the readings within parameters. But once at that level, maintaining the levels are easy. Considering the venue, they should have been testing the waters at least twice a day and include verifying chemical levels. Make adjustments after the day's events.
I'm no chemist but I have treated pool water at home before and now run an hour of chemical water test for the hospital's boilers, cooling towers, potable water, steam condensate, and desilizier (boiler water treatment to remove silica). We test this every night and make necessary adjustments on our chemical pumps to maintain proper pH, P&M, conductivity, silica, chlorides, and other readings. If starting from scratch it'll take time to get the readings within parameters. But once at that level, maintaining the levels are easy. Considering the venue, they should have been testing the waters at least twice a day and include verifying chemical levels. Make adjustments after the day's events.
Could we get you over to Rio, stat?! And bring some coffee. Apparently only Coca Cola products are allowed in the Olympic Village.
These athletes are doing such a good job. It sucks what they are up against.
Why do so many non-western countries seem to not give two ***** about proper sanitation or hygiene?
Well, Brazil is a western country. Just corrupt. Horrifically corrupt. I've read that most of the money that was allocated for upgrading the sanitation, which would have benefited the residents, in addition to the athletes was diverted to high end real estate in Rio and Miami for the stake holders.
Boy, the Olympic Committee really picked a winner in choosing Brazil, didn't they? Where next, Bangladesh ??? How about Somalia ? That would be cool.
Don
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Where next, Bangladesh ??? How about Somalia ? That would be cool.
