The UK pool industry is being urged to rethink its approach to pool management and crucially, water quality control. Pool industry consultant, Paul McMichael, believes many companies are under-resourced and even worse, are stuck in outdated practices from up to 30 years ago. “I have seen first-hand, a reluctance to embrace new technology, new approaches […]
Pool Management
When PWTAG came on the scene 40 years ago, pool management had already come a long way from the 1800s when pools were filled on a Monday and emptied a week later. The Ministry of Health had published The Purification of the Water of Swimming Bath (‘the blue book’) in 1929. An association of baths […]
Modern pool management is all about making processes as efficient and easy as possible. With this in mind, one of the most innovative products on the market is the GC PoolCop – a smart pool management system that remotely monitors every aspect of a pool. It consists of a Valve Data Unit that is installed […]
PWTAG produced two slim booklets in its first ten years, and its first proper book (Pool Water Guide) 24 years ago. Four years later came the first edition of Swimming Pool Water, ten years later the second edition and eight years on, in 2017, the third. The pace has hotted up since: November 2018 saw […]












