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Ripples #17

Compiled and Written by Lenny Giteck Yankees’ A-Rod Strikes Out With Tenants Irate Over Pool Florida housing officials have ordered New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez — more commonly known as A-Rod — to better maintain the swimming pool at

Packaging a Designer’s Messages

It only makes sense that designers should promote themselves in ways that reflect their abilities.When we look at the materials many watershapers use to market their services, however, it's obvious that everything from

Fountain Makes Magic in Moscow

Toronto-based Crystal Fountains has designed a dramatic, multifunctional waterfeature for White Square Office Center, a major new commercial development in Moscow. The company describes

Water-in-Transit Pond Problem

Understanding how to move water from one level to another is among the most surprisingly complex challenges in all of watershaping. Indeed, there are lots of ways to get into trouble - even if you're confident that

Test Your Knowledge #5

In what famous Roman city was an ancient statue of a goddess wearing a bikini discovered, and who was the Roman goddess?

Ripples #16

Compiled and Written by Lenny Giteck"Sin City" Adult and Topless Pools Make Big Splash with Tourists "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," as the brilliant marketing slogan says - and apparently for an increasing number of the city's approximately 40 million annual visitors, that extends to Sin City's

Finding Fitness in the Pool

It’s been important to me for two reasons: First, I’m convinced (as others in this magazine have argued) that the watershaping industry is doing both itself and its clients a disservice by not promoting the remarkable healthfulness of aquatic activity. I think this is a deficit we desperately need to address — and also that this effort must begin on a solid base of knowledge and fact. Second, as I progress through my forties, I’m finding that running is becoming more and more difficult because

Pachyderm Posteriors by the Pool

How many times have we seen a pile of artificial rocks plopped on the end or along the side of a freeform pool, left with no visual connection to anything else in the space? The answer, of course, is "countless times" - which prompts a far more important question: why? Why are we still seeing watershapes installed with edges that look to my eyes to be

Beware of Exploding Lava Rocks

In selecting materials, most of us know enough to think about how our choices will work when exposed to water. Only rarely, however, do we think about how those materials will perform when exposed to fire — which is being featured in more and more projects these days — and how they

Inside Total Dissolved Solids

Just how much do swimming pool chemicals add to the total dissolved solids (TDS) content of the water? Do all chemicals of equal amounts (by weight) add identical amounts of TDS to swimming pool water? These are important questions, because elevated TDS levels can