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Standing on the deck of your pool,\\xa0 looking down - you can see your 50p and its heads - the water is sparkling - crystal clear you think.

Perhaps not!

Your water is sh*t, I have been heard to say! Sometimes the incredulous look from the Manager as he/she says \\u201cbut my water readings are perfect, Free Chlorine is 1.5ppm (mg/l) my combined is 0.5 and my total 2.0 - how can that be?\\u201d\\xa0

Often at this stage the Manager usually gets quite defensive (as well as a little hurt)

I often thought that maintaining pool water was a little bit of a \\u201cblack art\\u201d, it takes someone with a keen interest in water chemistry, a sound knowledge of the plant room and of course well trained.

It\\u2019s the sign of the times that so very few swimming pools have their own dedicated \\u201cplant man\\u201d much of the duties fall into the laps of the already over stretched Duty Managers who may only \\u201ctip a nod\\u201d to the pool and do the water tests as trained.

So it is not so surprising that there are not so many on site who are well informed about turbidity (how many sites have a turbidity meter?)

So to try and help explain a little more about turbidity in layman's language and WHY we sometimes can\\u2019t see through water, I asked two acknowledged \\xa0experts in their field and co-hosts of Poolcast The Swimming Pool Podcast , Robin Mitchell and Ian Ogilvie to join a\\xa0 session with View from the Pool to enlighten, educate and entertain\\xa0 us all.

Glad to say, we ticked all three boxes!