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title: Keeping Tabs Blog | Water Treatment Best Practice | chlorination (2)
description: chlorination | From commercial pools and fountains to irrigation or fresh cut packaging. Keeping Tabs is the education blog designed to keep you on top of industry trends and best practices. (2)
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## [The MAHC and Pool Disinfection](https://blog.westlakewatersolutions.com/understanding-pool-disinfection)

[The Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC)](https://www.cdc.gov/mahc/index.html) is a common guidepost under which many successful pool operators run their facility.

Issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2014 to create regulations and standards regarding all types of public recreational water venues across the country, the MAHC simplified a previously complicated process to assist in minimizing the spread of recreational water illnesses at disinfected swimming venues.

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## [Olympic games put water quality on world’s center stage](https://blog.westlakewatersolutions.com/olympic-games-put-water-quality-on-worlds-center-stage)

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The Olympic swimming and diving competitions are some of the most popular events that capture the attention of fans worldwide. The precise and acrobatic skills of the divers, which usually culminates with entry into crystal blue pools, didn’t quite work out that way this year. The divers were there—but the water clarity wasn’t.

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