"Lawrence M. Seldin, CMC, CPC" wrote in message
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I was chatting with someone at a sport's game and they mentioned that
someone they knew put
in a salt water rather than fresh water pool in the back yard. Not one for
a pond of fish.

1) Are there any advantages to this?

2) Someone mentioned that their child has eye problems with the chlorine
in pools. Is their a
non-chlorine based pool treatment for fresh water pools that will not
irratate their kids eyes?

Salt's not going to kill harmful microrganisms unless maybe if you get up to
the concentration of salt in the Dead Sea.
I believe the ocean and blood contain ~5% salt and we all know stuff can
live there. Chloride ion has no oxidative power to kill bugs.