Category: Swimming Pools

In a recently launched “drought education” campaign, trade group the California Pool and Spa Association (CPSA) suggests that installing a backyard swimming hole is an effective — and super-fun! — way to conserve water as the state’s historic dry spell enters its fourth year. In fact, the Let’s Pool Together campaign claims that mindfully maintained residential swimming pools require far less…

Despite the severe drought, Californians built more backyard swimming pools in 2014 than in any year since the peak of the housing boom. And this year the state is on pace to shatter last year’s mark. Listen to NPR Photo by stevendepolo

It’s been nearly two months since the Wellness & Aquatics Complex in Maury County closed but there’s now a new push to reopen the facility’s pools, according to county leaders. Formerly the Maury County YMCA, the WAC was losing money and could not come up with the funding to stay open. It closed in late…

South African President Jacob Zuma will not have to repay public money spent on ‘security upgrades’ to his private residence that included a swimming pool and chicken run, the police minister announced Thursday. Finding that all the upgrades were for necessary for the safety of the head of state, Nkosinathi Nhleko told a news conference:…

Several city pools are set to open in the coming month, but a couple will not open at all this summer. The Parks and Recreation Department determined 25 of the city’s 36 pools are in need of repairs, mostly for water leaks. Metz Pool, on Austin’s east side, and Mabel Davis Pool, on the south…

A new swimming pool in the heart of London is going to be no crystal-clear oasis or aquamarine infinity pool. It’s a pond, full of plants, probably some toads, maybe the occasional newt. And it looks amazing. See Quartz https://vimeo.com/106807452