rational water use
When we talk about sustainable architecture first thought is Pamper savings, but do not always think in the rational use of natural resources eg water. In a pool house is certainly the activity which consumes more water. Not have adequate control of water consumption in the pools can be a major waste. We generally think that your water pool is the water containing the same and a little more, the use of these facilities becomes much greater and often alarming and should take seriously water-saving measures.
Water Renewal
The daily intake of fresh water during periods of full utilization of the pool should be at least enough to ensure the maintenance of healthy water quality. Some measures to reduce water consumption are:
• You must keep the water level necessary for the proper functioning of the recirculation system.
• Automate filling the glass of water renewal when necessary, usually to make up for lost by evaporation and use.
When we talk about sustainable architecture first thought is Pamper savings, but do not always think in the rational use of natural resources eg water. In a pool house is certainly the activity which consumes more water. Not have adequate control of water consumption in the pools can be a major waste. We generally think that your water pool is the water containing the same and a little more, the use of these facilities becomes much greater and often alarming and should take seriously water-saving measures.
Water Renewal
The daily intake of fresh water during periods of full utilization of the pool should be at least enough to ensure the maintenance of healthy water quality. Some measures to reduce water consumption are:
• You must keep the water level necessary for the proper functioning of the recirculation system.
• Automate filling the glass of water renewal when necessary, usually to make up for lost by evaporation and use.
Chemicals and treatments
is essential to add the right amount of chemicals and implement systems of disinfection and treatment advanced and cleaner technologies, such as hydrolysis, ozone, ultraviolet, etc. These alternatives require less amounts of chlorine, with the environmental benefits it brings.
Pool Design
• Protect the wind pool by natural barriers or find a location in a protected area, thus preventing water loss by evaporation negligible.
• Consider possible leakage problems and design, both in the structure of the pool and hydraulic pipes and unions, which generally involve very important water losses.
Water Reuse While the above points are important the big question is, what about the entire volume of water in our pool?, Just throw it away? One option is to recover the waste water in the pool and reuse it for changing rooms and toilets (WC), watering gardens and lawns, etc. In this case the drain of the pool should be connected to a storage tank, which could also reach rainwater. Not always the quality of waste water is suitable for the use we want to give (eg irrigation), so there will be certain critical parameters that control and treat this water to remove chlorine (with a column of activated carbon, for example) and the sediments (with a final sand filter, for example). Both the activated carbon as the sands consist of passing the contaminated water by a filter bed.
Cover the pool with a floating foil to prevent water loss through evaporation is a good practice, both in indoor and outdoor. One should bear in mind that the cover material does not contain polluting compounds and is potentially recyclable if degradation.
Water is a resource to be protected and therefore think reuse is fundamental. Marcelo
Alibert Arch
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