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 How Swimming Pools Work

­Conceptually, pools are pretty simple -- they're just big basins of water. But on a hot summer day, a swimming pool can seem like the greatest invention known to man. And as it turns out, there really is a lot of cool technology at work in your average pool -- much more than you might expect.

In this article, we'll find out how pools are built, and we'll take a look at the plumbing system that keeps the water clean and chemically balanced.

Pool Basics
 Pools come in all shapes and sizes, but nearly all of them, from the backyard personal pool to the water park wave pool, work in the same basic way. They use a combination of filtration and chemical treatment to continually clean a large volume of water.

An apartment complex, mid-construction: It looks like a big hole in the ground, but it's really much more.

A typical pool needs seven major components:

• A basin
• A motorized pump
• A water filter
• A chemical feeder
• Drains
• Returns
• PVC plastic plumbing connecting all of these elements

The basic idea is to pump water in a continual cycle, from the pool through the filtering and chemical treatment systems and back to the again. In this way, the pumping system keeps the water relatively free of dirt, debris and bacteria. Some also include heaters in the mix, in order to keep the water at a certain temperature.

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