| The typical backyard swimming pool holds 16,000 | | | | 10 Ways To Reduce The Carbon Footprint On |
| to 20,000 gallons of water. Pool evaporation | | | | Swimming Pools |
| amounts to 3 to 7 feet of water per year. For a | | | | 1) Always cover your pool. Pool covers reduce |
| 15 by 30 foot pool, the range is 10,000 to 23,000 | | | | evaporation, heat loss and chemical loss. |
| gallons per year for evaporation, plus about 25% | | | | 2) Reduce the size or horsepower of your pool |
| to account for splashing. If the pool is filled once a | | | | pump. |
| year, it requires about 38,000 gallons of water | | | | 3) Heat your pool with a solar pool heater. Or not |
| every year. | | | | at all. |
| Is your heated with a gas pool heater? The low | | | | 4) Avoid horseplay and excess splashing. |
| efficiency of gas heaters result in a high cost of | | | | 5) Turn off waterfalls and water features when |
| operation. $1.00 worth of heat requires $1.20 or | | | | not in use. |
| more of fuel. | | | | 6) Use a salt chlorine generator. |
| So, a typical pool can really leave a huge carbon | | | | 7) Use a cartridge filter. Cartridge filters use |
| footprint. With 7,000,000 backyard pools, that | | | | hundreds of gallons less than DE or sand filters |
| really is a dent on the environment. | | | | 8) LED lights use much less energy that |
| What Can We Do? | | | | incandescent lights. |
| There are so many ways to conserve energy, | | | | 9) Use a pool cleaner that does not require |
| water and chemicals at the pool. Leaving a minimal | | | | electricity or a booster pump. |
| carbon footprint is easier than you think. The | | | | 10) Use a good winter cover, to avoid draining the |
| following is a list of things you can do, to do your | | | | pool. |
| part in trying to leave as little impact on the earth. | | | | |