efficiency

Interventions
  Tireless in his quest for information about and approaches to the creation of toxin-free pools and spas, John Cohen has spent years weighing observations of nature and the human body and figuring out ways to use what he's learned to help people swim in pure, clean, safe water.    
Fountain Supply Co. Offers Water-Level Controller
Fountain Supply Co. (Santa Clarita, CA) makes an electronic water-level controller for fountains and other…
AquaCal Updates Look of Heat Pumps
AquaCal (St. Petersburg, FL) has streamlined the look of its HeatWave SuperQuiet heat pumps. The…
Just the Opposite
'Is it honest to say that too few of the swimming pools you find in America's backyards are what one could call well built - and that even fewer of them are well designed?  I think so,' wrote Brian Van Bower in opening his Aqua Culture column for April 2002, 'because so many of the pools I see run like junk and look like junk.' 'The environment out there is so unfortunate that
2017/4.2, April 19 — Sustainable Persuasion, Formal Pondscape, Island Memories and more
THE ESSENTIAL E-NEWSLETTER FOR WATERSHAPE DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS April 19, 2017 www.watershapes.com SUSTAINABLE TRENDS…
Hayward Commercial Releases HCP 3000 Pumps
Hayward Commercial Pool (Elizabeth, NJ) has introduced the HCP 3000 Series of pumps to provide…
FlowVis Flow Meters from H2O Flow
H2O Flow (Sylvania, OH) has introduced the FlowVis Flow Meter, an affordable, reliable control device…
Solar Pool Pump Systems from Lorentz
Lorentz (Henstedt-Ulzburg, Germany) offers PS solar swimming pool pumps for use in residential and commercial…
The Evolving Studio
I've been working with digital design technology for nearly ten years at this point, and I have to say that the rate of change with both the software and the hardware has been rapid enough to make a casual observer's head spin.  And that's fine, because those of us who've been involved with it from the beginning have come to expect no less. In my case, however, I didn't start out with computer design.  In fact, I'd been working as
Pumped-Up Savings
Through the years, professional watershapers have learned that good hydraulic design can significantly increase system efficiency while lowering the ongoing costs of operation.  Now they're also recognizing that achieving these efficiencies and finding these savings are perceived as "going green" - a key to helping