alt Hacker NewsAs someone who has been maintaining a pool for several years, you really hope you don't have to cycle the full amount of water once a year. You're really doing something wrong or incredibly unlucky if that's the case. That's at least true for the climate I live in. If I lived in a different climate, I'd probably forego having a pool.
It was incredibly painful when I had to drain the pool for deep maintenance a few years ago, and I'm not looking forward to having to do it again in a little while.
Also, most residential pool owners don't have half olympic pools in their yard. They're usually much smaller than that.
> Also, most residential pool owners don't have half olympic pools in their yard. They're usually much smaller than that.
Hence my caveat at the end. When talking about swimming pools, tiny residential pools is certainly not what springs to mind for me.
Most pools near me are in fitness centres etc. and are 25m pools.
And I certainly wouldn't go swimming in one of those if the water wasn't cycled regularly. Thankfully the data suggest they are.
If we're talking tiny little residential pools, then using a swimming pool worth of water isn't very shocking. Unless I'm way off, a 10-15m shower every day would use a similar amount of water in that case.