Sicily (gro) A vacation home by the sea, and still a pool? If you want to afford it, you are well served, especially in the “windy season”. Apart from the special pleasure of taking a refreshing dip right by the house before breakfast and even at night time: When the surf washes over the beach all too wildly and the sea is even too churned up, the pleasure increases at your own pool. Mildly salty water, kept clear and clean according to the latest technology, is considered particularly refreshing. Mild salt water, enriched with minerals, is considered skin-friendly and beneficial to health.
Mild salt water is especially skin-friendly.
Bathing in mild salt water is considered particularly skin-friendly, corresponding bath water additives have long been offered in every pharmacy for the home tub. And logically in the meantime, salt has also been discovered for outdoor pools, namely for electronically controlled systems that use salt electrolysis to keep the pool water germ-free and protect it from algae growth . So far, the new process has been used mainly in public swimming pools. But the new technology is now also finding its way into the pools of vacation homes and villas, as shown by one example in Sicily, where the Villa Farfalla near Selinunte is equipped with a pool that is kept fresh and clean using the latest salt technology.
“Oasis of well-being”
From the pool construction industry, the novel facilities are praised as “oases of well-being”. And users of such modern-supplied pools agree. Positive reactions also come from waterworks. The new process, based on salt electrolysis, saves time and effort for water maintenance, reports say. It is, moreover, a globally proven process that has been known for 40 years and is becoming increasingly cost-effective.
Disinfection is achieved through controlled electrolysis.
The mildly salty pool water is not sea water, which contains about ten times more salt than a swimming pool kept fresh with salt technology. In any case, it is much less aggressive than “normal” pool water, which contains more chlorine or the irritant gas ozone for disinfection. The chlorine contained in the mild salt water is obtained directly from the salt additive by means of electrolysis. Finally, salt, as obtained from the sea, such as from the salt marshes (salt flats) of Trapani or from mines, is composed of the elements sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl), according to its chemical-molecular formula NaCL.
Good for the skin and good for the material.
The novel pool water is, as mentioned, less aggressive. This reduces the wear and tear of the construction materials for the pool, be it stainless steel, plastic. Ceramic or rubber. It also ensures skin-friendliness, not only because of the comparatively low input of disinfectants, but also because health-promoting minerals are added to the bathing water along with the salt additives. Incidentally, said a lifeguard in Donnalucata at the end of October, holidaymakers vacationing in the deep south of Europe now have a “three-stage water experience” at their disposal: The wild salt water of the Sicilian sea, the mild salt water of the new pools and the sparkling fresh water of the outdoor showers.”