| Yazarlar |
Derya Çamur
Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Hüseyin İLTER
Türkiye |
|
Mustafa Kemal Başaralı
Dicle Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
| Özet |
| Swimming pools are used in Turkey for physical activity and entertainment purposes as in many countries. Such common use brings recreational water-associated illness risk. Disinfection is an important application to prevent RWIs resulting from microbiological agents. This study aimed to calculate the non-compliance frequencies emerging in the use of different chemical disinfectants in swimming pools in Turkey and compare the effectiveness of different disinfection methods in the prevention of microbiological non-compliances. We evaluated the analysis results of a total of 79 087 pool water samples taken from inspection semi-public and public swimming pools in Turkey, where chemical disinfection was used, for routine monitoring purposes in the first eight months of 2015 and 2016. The minimum non-compliance for the total numbers of colony, total coliform, E. coli and P. aeruginosa parameters was determined in pools where chlorine and chlorine compounds were used (0.9-1.0% and 0.4-1.1%, respectively) whereas the highest non-compliance was found in pools using hydrogen peroxide + biguanide (5.5-5.3% and 3.1-9.1%, respectively). The applied statistical tests revealed a statistically significant difference between disinfection methods in terms of non-compliance frequency of all microbiological parameters (p < 0.0000001). This study found that chlorine in semi-public and public pools to be more effective against microbiological pollution than other chemical disinfection methods. This result is extremely important as it emphasises that other methods may be a suitable option in small, domestic pools with low user density whereas chlorine should be the primary preference especially in semi-public and public pools with high user density. |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| Biguanide | Chlorine | Disinfection | Hydrogen peroxide | Ozone | Swimming pool |
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale |
| Makale Alt Türü | SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale |
| Dergi Adı | Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology |
| Dergi ISSN | 1311-5065 |
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | SCI-Expanded |
| Makale Dili | İngilizce |
| Basım Tarihi | 01-2017 |
| Cilt No | 18 |
| Sayı | 3 |
| Sayfalar | 1231 / 1237 |
| Makale Linki | http://www.jepe-journal.info/home |
