Our observations in Australia’s aquatic industry, lead us to take a deeper look in the potential correlation between asthma and the use of chemicals specifically in public pools with high visitation:
Question:
WHY DOES AUSTRALIA HAVE THE HIGHEST PREVALENCE OF ASTHMA IN THE WORLD???
Answer: Sadly, because many Australian public pools and swim schools are broken!
Question: HOW ARE THEY BROKEN???
Answers: 1. Despite much being over-regulated in Australia, no requirement exists for aquatic engineers to apply the well recognised Industry Standard for the design of public pool water treatment plants. Public pools are procured through commercial tender processes, where market participants are incentivised to minimise costs with disregard for long term sustainability
2. Government authorities and industry bodies are not adequately qualified in the complex nature of the aquatic environment.
3. Unlike the urban water industry, where drink water from the tap is highly regulated and reported on, there is no such national reporting in the aquatic industry, due to the dysfunctional organisation of government and authorities.
Question: HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO ASTHMA???
Answer: The link between the early onset of Asthma in pre-school children and chlorinated swimming pools has been scientifically studied and proven in Europe. Coincidentally, the regulated chlorine concentrations in these European nations studied, is significantly lower than chlorine concentrations mandated and allowed in Australia.
In Australia, public pool owners and operators, overcompensate for inferior primary water treatment, with excessive chlorine, chemicals and expensive ozone systems as if that is the only solution to the underlying problem, that is making our children sick, contract asthma in pre-school years, along with tens of thousands of avoidable hospitalisations that our crippling our health system.
What about Asthma Australia?
Healthy Pool Water initiated numerous attempts, to contact, connect with, correspond with Asthma Australia and attended offices in person to discuss our findings.
Our correspondence was never acknowledged, not even upon follow up. One staffer stated the organisation had ‘financial and time constraints’ as a reason for being unable to attend to Healthy Pool Water’s proposition.
Asthma Australia is a publicly funded NGO, employs approximately 50FTE’s, with annual revenues in excess of $7million per annum, stating that the annual cost of Asthma to the Australian economy runs in excess of $1Billion per annum.
Furthermore it reports the annual number of deaths at 400+, 65 of those are children. In Australia 2.8million people live with asthma.
It is our contention, that the Asthma statistics would be significantly lower, if swim schools and public pools were regulated more effectively, realising a substantial reduction of human suffering, PLUS a net financial gain for all stakeholders involved.
As more children continue to get sick unnecessarily, we are awaiting a constructive response from Asthma Australia to work with us to eradicate asthma and to prevent a million kids being diagnosed before the Brisbane Olympics!
FYI
The Combination in Australia, clotine and fluorine?
https://www.facebook.com/fluoridefreeaustralia/posts/declan-waugh-on-asthma-and-fluoridationjune-8-2013-jesus-wept-i-think-im-going-t/1444517582335656/
Declan Waugh on Asthma and Fluoridation.
June 8, 2013 ·
“Jesus wept- I think i’m going to lose my mind. The highest prevalence of childhood asthma in the world is to be found in fluoridated countries. Australia No 1, Ireland No. 2. Within Europe the prevalence of children with asthma in Ireland is almost double that of most other European countries. Between 1995 and 2003 the prevalence in 13-14yr olds in FLUORIDATED IRELAND increased by 40% now representing 1 in 4 children of this age group.
According to the WHO asthma is an inflammatory disorder of the bronchial airways. The National Academies of Science and Medicine in their 2006 report on Fluoride concluded that fluoride exposure increases the inflammatory response in humans to irritants. The top five countries in the world for prevalence of asthma in children are all fluoridated.”
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