Municipal Swimming Pool in Pöchlarn
(Austria)
A therapy in revitalised water 
Christian Wippel was a qualified gardener. Now he has been a pool attendant at the Pöchlarn swimming pool in Lower Austria for three years. Before he started working at the pool, he had never really thought about the significance of water. This changed when he discovered how much chlorine and other cleaning agents are needed to keep the water of a public swimming pool clean over a long period. As with so many water treatment plants, particularly old ones, it was not easy to keep the water in the Pöchlarn pool clean. The large pool has 1,500m3 of water, the children’s pool 30m3. In August 2001, in the middle of the pool season, the filter suddenly started to leak. This resulted in the pool being closed.
‘Since our plant was so old that it could not be brought up to date, I suggested to my boss, the mayor of Pöchlarn, that we should install a Grander revitalising system,’ Wippel remembers. The pool was renovated early last year in good time before the start of the pool season. The Grander water revitalization system was installed, as was a drinking fountain, also using Grander Technology. Wippel noticed how pool visitors made additional use of the drinking fountain. ‘They used to fill up bottles to take the revitalised water with them, they loved it so much!’
A number of swimmers also enthused about the improvements in their health. One woman told Wippel that her psoriasis had completely disappeared, and many people said how pleasant it was to no longer have to smell the chlorine, while the painter Franz Knapp, who had suffered a stroke, now comes only to the Pöchlarn pool for his therapeutic water exercises. | 