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Pentair Offers AcuPort Control Units
Pentair Pool Products (Sanford. NC) brings remote-control capabilities to commercial equipment rooms by combining its…
2019/12.1, December 4 — Saving the Day, Sharing Insights, Glass-Tile Glory and more
THE ESSENTIAL E-NEWSLETTER FOR WATERSHAPE DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS December 4, 2019 www.watershapes.com FEATURE ARTICLE…
Pentair Releases Control/Monitoring System
Pentair Aquatic Systems (Sanford, NC) now offers IntelliConnect, a control and monitoring system that allows…
2018/10.2, October 17 — Montana Splendor, Corporate Assertion, Transforming Flows and more
THE ESSENTIAL E-NEWSLETTER FOR WATERSHAPE DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS October 17, 2018 www.watershapes.com FEATURE ARTICLE…
Augmenting Reality
For a watershaper who's spent a career designing and installing natural-looking ponds, streams and waterfalls using pumps and liners, this project was both an unusual treat and a distinct challenge - a dream job, as I saw it. I was called to the property at the suggestion of a landscape-maintenance company that wanted nothing to do with what the homeowners were asking, and the reason was pretty obvious: A spring-fed stream flowed across the property as it had done for at least hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and it needed
2018/1.2, January 24 — Tile Precision, Mastering the Plaster Phase, Odd Fountain Fix and more
THE ESSENTIAL E-NEWSLETTER FOR WATERSHAPE DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS January 24, 2018 www.watershapes.com FEATURE ARTICLE…
Just Awesome
To say that I've avidly followed the just-completed process of restoring and renovating the Main Fountain Garden at Longwood Gardens is putting it mildly:  This water display has been part of my life since I was ten years old, and I'm proud to say that it's responsible both for my profound interest in water in motion and in some ways for my being a professional watershaper today. So it makes sense that I was there at Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pa.) on May 27, 2017, when the fountain
Watching the Water
I've witnessed and participated in discussions of water safety on a professional level for more than 30 years now, and I can remember a time when watershapers in just about every sector were unhappy about raising the subject in any way. I could understand the negative attitudes:  No matter whether it had to do with pools, spas, ponds or any other form of open, accessible water, nobody
#25: Water Wall
In concept, water walls are pretty straightforward:  You pump a bit of water to the top of a structure and set up a weir or spillways or a system of emitters to release water so that it moves down the face of the wall the way you want it to flow. In actuality, however, water walls are much more complicated than that.  In fact, there are lots of things that
2017/1.2, January 25 — Fish Out Front, Water Wall Basics, Japanese Style and more
THE ESSENTIAL E-NEWSLETTER FOR WATERSHAPE DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS January 25, 2017 www.watershapes.com FEATURE ARTICLE…