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Chlorination is used to prevent the spread of waterborne infectious diseases from swimming pools. This required disinfection practice also results in the formation of undesirable disinfection by-products (DBPs) from the reactions of chlorine with the organic matter (released by swimmers or present in the filling water of the pool) and bromide. Some of these DBPs have important adverse public health effects; as a result their concentrations in drinking waters are regulated. Unfortunately, DBPs formation and control in swimming pools have not been studied and investigated to the same extent as their formation and control in drinking water.

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Amer is the Head of the Environment and Earth Sciences Department at Al-Quds University. Amer teaches Environmental Pollution and Prevention, Environmental Chemistry, and Organics in the Environment. As well, Amer is also the coordinator for the Master s Program in Environmental Science. He earned his Ph.D. from Clemson University in the US.

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