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Standard strength.(Editorial)
The aquatics industry has a lot of strengths: dedicated professionals passionate about what they do and a growing market, to name just two.
But it also has a potentially devastating weakness, one that simultaneously threatens its growth and puts it at risk: a lack of water-quality standards.
Setting standards is never easy. That's especially true with the aquatics industry, which spans a wide variety of interests, specialties and variables. For instance, source water can vary from state to state and city to city.
Those challenges aside, however, it's becoming more and more clear that the industry needs to establish standards--or pay the consequences.
Recently, we've explored two issues that demonstrate what's at stake.
In the last issue, we looked at the potential crisis the industry is headed for because it lacks up-to-date water-quality standards. States, which now set the standards, have fallen woefully behind. In some cases, existing standards are so out of whack that operators say following them creates unsafe conditions.
In this issue, we examine a related problem: the fact that many facilities don't require certified pool operators. For years, most professionals have suspected that certified ...
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