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Watershaping mastery reveals itself in many different guises, from the ultra-elaborate and complex to the relatively simple and sublime. The Santa Monica project by Kevin Cobabe pictured here fell into both categories, with a visually simplistic design that featured a host of fine details and precise construction.
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In Horseshoe Bay, Texas, Southern Living Pools and the shotcrete specialists at Texan Gunite faced an unusual challenge: constructing a large, curvilinear watershape with most of its structure suspended directly above Lake LBJ. The ASA award-winning Yates Project demanded months of coordination, careful logistics, and precise dry-mix shotcrete placement to transform an ambitious lakeside vision into concrete reality.
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New research reveals that fog is far more than suspended water droplets. It is a temporary aquatic world filled with microbial life that may help cleanse the atmosphere, influence climate, and even affect human health. In a very real way, fog is, in fact, alive!
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The health and safety of public aquatic facilities rests on a complex foundation of science, engineering, operations, and human behavior. At the center of that effort is the Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC), a living document that has become the most influential guidance resource for aquatic facilities across the United States.
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Some projects challenge technical abilities, while others test logistical skills, and then there are those that remind you why you entered the profession in the first place. Roman Fountains work restoring six historic fountains in Washington, D.C., ahead of America's 250th anniversary celebration, falls firmly into that last category.
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Most pool heaters don't fail because they're old. They fail because small problems are ignored until they become expensive ones. Here, Rocco Russo, senior trainer for Fluidra Pro Academy, takes a deep dive into how heater care saves money, protects homeowner investments and builds trust. Keeping a few technical detail and procedures in mind can offer a range of benefits.
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as California reinvented itself as a land of health, leisure, and spectacle, a new aquatic building type emerged along its coastlines and growing inland cities: the plunge. In a time before the emergence of the backyard pool industry, the plunges were grand civic destinations, often enclosed, frequently ornate, and almost always tied to broader visions of social life and economic development.
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Automatic Pool Covers, Inc. has introduced Invis-A-Rope, designed to blend seamlessly into the pool track for a nearly invisible finish. Its dark gray color is intentionally engineered to match the pool coping and be virtually invisible within the track, unlike more visible alternatives. As a key component of the THREE·SIXTY·FIVE automatic pool cover system, Invis-A-Rope enhances overall pool aesthetics while maintaining functionality, delivering a discreet design that remains virtually unseen by swimmers and end users.
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As both a medical professional dedicated to helping patients find a path to healing, and a member of the watershaping industry focused on providing systems that generate current in pools and lazy rivers, Denise Canchola de Tournillon has built a unique career, over the past 25 years, in which water is a unifying element.
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The Expanding World of Pool Inspections