Suspension of licences for pools, as a Mallorcan municipality struggles with water supplies
There have been cuts to supply
At Thursday's council meeting, Esporles town hall will approve a further measure to address the municipality's water shortage.
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Rob CSalt water looks so not run on seawater. They use fresh water and add dry salt at under 1% (sea is 3.5%). Desalination costs money, where do you think a significant % of Palma's tap water comes from? So you might as well be using that!
Stephen NivenSaltwater can just as easily be treated as fresh, it can even be desalinated using dolsr energy.
Charles Dalrymple-ChumleySo why not change to salt water pools rather than banning?
Stupid. They should insist
Stephen NivenBravo! Sounds ideal. Other pool owners need to follow your example. Fresh water will be the most valuable resource of the future and your use of rainwater is the perfect solution.
Charles Dalrymple-ChumleySalt water pools run on 1/3 the salinity of seawater. Seawater is corrosive, full of bacteria and algae and toxic to soil when filters etc. require flushing. I manage my (modest sized) pool entirely from rainwater, as I do my entire finca, as there is no other choice. A well-fitting cover reduces evaporation losses to neatly zero. In fact the pool serves as a handy emergency storage and in case of a fire.
Sensible. But why not encourage/incentivise pool owners to convert to using sea water? There's a whole big business there of delivering sea water by container.