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Ripples #4

Compiled and written by Lenny Giteck This installment of Ripples begins with an array of tasty waterpark tidbits... Celine Dion's Private WaterparkTicks Off the Neighbors Superstar French-Canadian chanteuse Celine Dion may be able to belt out a stirring ballad, but her neighbors reportedly were more stirred up by what they regarded as her extreme

Watershaping and the Issue of Trust

I’ve spent some time in the past couple months looking for a good book about trust. I ran into some clunkers along the way, with many of them impressing me with how boring and preachy they could be. But I never had

The Ultimate Solution for Suction Entrapment

An Interview by Eric Herman For more than 30 years, Dr. William N. Rowley — founder and principle of Rowley International, headquartered in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. — has worked tirelessly to address the causes of suction entrapment incidents. He has personally investigated

French Drains the Right Way

Most everyone assumes that French drains have their name because engineers in France were way ahead of the curve in figuring out how to deal with the hydrostatic pressure that

Testing Concrete for Moisture

When good concrete coatings go bad, moisture is often the culprit. Even cured concrete can emit enough moisture to blister, cloud or delaminate a coating, especially when a slab with

Ripples #3

Compiled and written by Lenny Giteck White House MysteryPool Revealed Ripples would never publish anything damaging to the national security of the United States, and we're confident that this item about a mysterious White House swimming pool won't tell foreign

Uplifting Ideas for Trying Times

When times are tough, I sometimes find it useful to think about the things in life that I’m able to control while giving less thought to those I can’t. The plain fact is, no matter how troubling the news is or how tough the economy makes our working lives, nothing

Staying Ahead of the Water Wars

In the “My Perspective” piece I wrote for WaterShapes EXTRA! last May, I shared my thoughts about the universal nature of water and how our relationship to it binds watershapers from all specialties — pools, ponds, waterfalls and all the rest. Along the way, I made the point that water, in all of its perceived abundance, is too often

Contractors, Footprints and Dust

Among contractors, it’s not unusual to find those who don’t think much of their counterparts in other trades. That seems a bit sad, really, but there’s a reason for it: All too often, you run into situations in which

Don’t Forget the Shelves!

Whether you’re installing a small residential watergarden or a large commercial pond, the key to producing one that is both natural-looking and easy to plant is largely determined by how you design