Salt water pools in Michigan backyards are a thing

If you've got a poool in your backyard, you're probably destination number one for neighborhood kids. BUt if you've got a salt water pool, well, you're part of a small but growing group of trendsetters. And you spend a whole lot less on chlorine. Excerpt: "Developed in Australia in the 1960s, where they make up 80% of the pools there, saltwater pools were introduced to the U.S. in the 1980s but didn’t really catch on until the mid-1990s, when the technology significantly improved. Any pool can be converted to saltwater with the purchase of a lot of salt and a special generator that electronically turns salt — sodium chloride — into pure chlorine to clean the water, then regenerates back into salt." Read the rest here.