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Recreational Water Quality is published digitally three times a year for public health officials by APSP's Recreational Water Quality Committee. Each issue covers water quality issues related to human health and safety in the aquatic environment, including pool and spa sanitation, water treatment processes, and microbiological issues.
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About the APSP Technical Committee
The Technical Committee is responsible for reviewing for technical accuracy all the technical, safety, and health affairs of the association, including the development of policy recommendations to the Board of Directors and the implementation of such policies. The Technical Committee shall review for technical accuracy product-related consensus standards, conduct appropriate scientific research, and review other technical, safety, and health activities as may be required by the association and its committees.
APSP Standards Consensus Committee Convened
APSP has reaccredited its procedures with American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a Standards Developing Organization. In doing so, APSP has created one standing standards consensus voting committee to ANSI ballot all 15 APSP pool and spa standards. This committee, the APSP Standards Consensus Committee, will replace the need to create 15 separate, independent canvass lists that must be reconstituted each time one of the 15 APSP standards comes up for ballot. This will effectively streamline the standards process and produce ANSI changes quickly and more efficiently.
Committee members serve three-year terms and can be reappointed for a second three-year term. Anyone interested in serving on the committee should contact Carvin DiGiovanni at cdigiovanni@apsp.org
The committee comprises 10 members from each of the following interest categories :
Producer. Manufacturer, builder, or installer of swimming pools, spas and hot tubs or components.
User. Any individual/entity that uses swimming pools, spas, swim spas and hot tubs or components. This includes but is not limited to federal, state, or local regulatory agency or department for public safety. The entity may also have the responsibility of regulating or monitoring swimming pools, spas, or hot tubs.
General Interest. An entity or individual with expertise in swimming pools, but that neither produces nor uses them directly. This category includes but is not limited to consultants, academia, insurance companies, testing laboratories (that test or certify pool and spa components against standards) public interest organizations, and “not-for-profits” having an interest in pools, spas/hot tubs.
FBI Guidelines on WMD-component Chemicals
Operating Guidelines (best practices for operating a pool or spa)
Standards (More information about the APSP's consensus standards)
State Pool and Spa Codes
Technical Publications
Water Treatment Bulletins
RWQ Newsletter Archive (Back issues of Recreational Water Quality newsletter)
To order technical and standards publications online, visit the APSP Store or contact the APSP Member Services Center.
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