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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- As we prepare for hot summer temperatures, the price of relief -- plunging into that cool, blue swimming pool in your backyard -- continues to increase.

As summer temperatures approach, the price of relief — plunging into that cool, blue swimming pool in your backyard — continues to increase.

Costs to maintain swimming pools are rising sharply thanks to a prolonged chlorine tablet shortage that began after the nation's largest manufacturing facility was destroyed by fire in 2020. Costs are increasing for tablets and just about everything else related to your pool, including the workers who keep them clean, retailers say.

Chlorine shortage could make it harder to keep pools sanitized this summer Ron Hurtibise, South Florida Sun Sentinel April 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A dip in the pool might be more expensive or even impossible this summer.SABOR Keeping your pool clean and inviting this summer could become more challenging than ever, as market forces have converged to reduce chlorine supplies and drive up prices. And that’s not something anyone wants to contemplate at the beginning of a long sticky summer...

Chlorine shortage could make it harder to keep pools sanitized this summer Sun Sentinel 3 hrs ago Ron Hurtibise, South Florida Sun-Sentinel © Mike Stocker / South Florida/Sun Sentinel Gerson Reyes of Master Touch Pools cleans and adds chlorine to a pool in Parkland on Friday, April 23, 2021. Pool services and homeowners are facing a looming shortage of swimming pool chlorine. As temperatures have risen across South Florida in recent weeks, so has our desire to escape the he...