Olympic officials in Rio de Janeiro announced this past weekend that they had found out why the water in two pools turned bright green, but their explanation has at least one chemist scratching her ...

Olympic officials finally figured out what caused several pools built for the Rio De Janeiro Games to turn violently green: someone dumped 47 gallons of hydrogen peroxide into them. The officials aren ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The "embarrassing" emerald green water in the pools at the Rio aquatics center that left some athletes with itchy eyes is the result of an unplanned dump of hydrogen ...

The effectiveness of an ultraviolet light/hydrogen peroxide swimming pool disinfection system was evaluated. This system eliminates the use of additional disinfectants, such as chlorine or bromine, ...