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What’s in the water: How the quality of the water in your pool affects your health
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By Haley Walker, Alice Rossignol and Emma Ogutu
Jan. 14, 2010
Three years ago a 6-year-old boy was rushed to intensive care when someone put the wrong amount of chemicals into a Nebraska motel pool. He and 23 other people suffered digestive, eye and respiratory problems when a pool operator used the wrong ratio of chlorine and ammonia. The boy was hospitalized in pediatric intensive care. Drowning is the most common risk people associate with pools.