Brooke Sutherland, Columnist

A Crystal Clear Pool Will Cost a Lot More This Summer

The price of popular chlorine tablets has doubled in two years and isn’t going down soon, if at all.

May 27, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Brooke Sutherland is Bloomberg News' Boston bureau chief and writes the Industrial Strength Newsletter. She was previously a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering deals and industrial companies and an M&A reporter for Bloomberg News.

Summertime swimming is going to be more expensive.
Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

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Temperatures are rising across the US, and so is the cost of the chlorine tablets commonly used to sanitize the water in swimming pools.