What would happen if chlorine wasn’t put in swimming pools?
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they would go green, blue or red from algea growth, they also probably wouldnt be that safe to swim in because stagnant warm watter is perfect for bacteria growth as well as insects like mosquitoes, the chlorine steralises the water to stop all this from happening
The diving pool at Rio 2016 olympics turned green due to algae.
[Green diving pool Rio 2016 Olympics](https://images.app.goo.gl/Tvs1HpiUdHykaut78)
Yeah we had a pool cleaner fraud us (he’d come to our house but not clean the pool because we were out of town. Employer cared about where his truck was on GPS but didn’t check on his work). It only took 2-3 weeks for a nice pool to look like a swamp.
you don’t need to wonder, there are plenty of pool cleaning videos available. Basically the water changes color and gunk builds up in the pool.
Years ago I had to get certified as a pool and spa operator for work. During the training course the instructor showed us a news story about a retiree couple that bought a hot tub but didn’t know they had to chlorinate it if they were going to keep it full all summer.
They both died of Legionnaire’s Disease.
Chlorine kills bacteria. People add chlorine in water to purge bacteria in the water. Bacteria love to grow in water. If not regularly added, bacteria would grow and if not added at all, over time would become very rich in bacteria like a green, algae covered pool.
I rented a suburban house where the neighbors behind me had an above ground pool that they stopped maintaining. It turned into a green colored mosquito and fly factory.
[Brain eating amoeba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri) is among the ones that could develop in that warm soup, though there are gazillion of other microbes and bacteria that would happily use you as a host.
You would end up with something that looks like a man-made swimming pool. It the heat and sunlight would cause a lot of algae in the spring. Even a covered pool is going to get nasty quick.
The simpsons explains what happens when no chlorine or too much chlorine is added.
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