Professional Watershaping
Watershape University expands Grant’s Grants to recognize the brave professionals who serve their communities and run toward danger when others are running away.
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Just a few streets from the Texas Gulf Coast, the city of Seabrook’s Pelican Bay aquatic complex presented a rare combination of engineering, regulatory and community challenges. Rebuilding the aging facility meant managing groundwater and storm-surge concerns while rethinking how the pools serve residents. The result is a $4.5 million transformation designed to withstand the coastal conditions and better serve the community.
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Few inventions have had a greater impact on civilization, or received less dinner-table discussion, than the toilet. From ancient drainage systems to gleaming smart fixtures, its history is a remarkable story of engineering, hygiene, water management and design. Along the way, toilets have helped reshape cities, conserve water and, quite literally, keep civilization from going down the drain.
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A narrow side yard can easily become an overlooked space, but thoughtful watershape design can transform it into something extraordinary. In this work prosaically titled, “Side Hustle,” The Green Scene turned a challenging passageway into an intimate retreat, combining sculptural water, illuminated crystal spheres, shimmering tile, and soothing sound to create an award-winning outdoor experience.
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It’s one of the oldest existing lifeforms on the planet—blue-green algae. Treating bodies of water affected by “harmful algae blooms” or HABs, is an all-encompassing water treatment challenge, one that begins by understanding the opportunistic nature of these organisms and the constant nature of their threat to water quality, from pools to ponds to the world’s largest lakes.
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There’s a seasonal rhythm to pool service in the Northeast, an annual awakening and slumber that defines the business. For Long Island’s Julie Kazdin, winterizing 300-plus pools is a long, carefully choreographed process, one that defines the annual ebb and flow. As she explains here, the process begins long before the first pool is closed and ends with the first successful openings of spring.
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In the pool renovation business, builders face a persistent challenge: how do you deliver long-term performance in an industry that has historically been built around short-term surface solutions? According to Aaron King, common problems such as cracking, staining, and delamination are no longer inevitable, but are now entirely avoidable.
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At Danville Community High School in Danville, Ind., the school's aquatic program had long operated under constraints that were becoming impossible to ignore. The existing pool—aging in both infrastructure and design—was struggling to keep pace with the demands of a growing student population, an increasingly competitive swim program, and modern expectations for safety, efficiency, and accessibility.
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For the millions of homeowners with swimming pools, water conservation means rethinking how they manage one of their property's most water-intensive features. The good news? One of the most effective solutions is already well-established—the automatic pool cover.
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The Cognitive Current