WaterShapes
OpenAire (Oakville, Ontario, Canada) has published a brochure on its capabilities in designing, manufacturing and…
Atlantic Water Gardens (Mantua, OH) now offers diffusers for use on large ponds and lakes.…
Aquatic Access (Louisville, KY) manufactures a custom canine lift for use around pools and spas.…
EP Minerals (Reno, NV) now offers CelaPool, a low-dust diatomaceous-earth pool-filtration aid that is easy…
PAL Lighting USA (Tucson, AZ) has introduced the Touch 5 wireless control. Designed with five…
Aquaview (Beverly Hills, CA) makes frameless glass pool fencing for applications ranging from private residences…
This is a story about possibilities pulled within reach by modern technology. It all started early in 2015, when one of us talked with a friend about the benefits of belonging to a group of like-minded professionals who get together a couple times a year to talk shop, exchange ideas and generally build the kind of camaraderie that's hard to develop if all you do is
It may be an old-school fountain display, but it's still a pretty amazing exhibition of technical know-how and ambition - and, better yet, opened my eyes to the story of a man named Frederic W. Darlington who, in a colorful career, apparently installed fountains across the country in the last years of the 19th Century and into the early years of the 20th. Most of these pioneering watershapes are gone now, but one is
Koi ponds can be watershapes of great beauty in which sizeable populations of large, gorgeous fish thrive through the long lives these creatures often experience. With the pond that appears at the start of the video linked below, however, there were key features that were missing from the existing pond that put the big fish at risk in a number of ways. I don't know the full history of the pond, but it's clear it
'During the past few years,' wrote Brian Van Bower to open his Aqua Culture column in March 2001, 'I've come to the stark realization that there are too few quality craftspeople in most geographical areas of our country. And it's not just the watershaping trades: The same holds true for most areas of the greater construction industry as well.' 'The hard reality is that, for many people in the trades, it's easier to do three ordinary jobs in a week than it is to do one challenging project over a month. I'm starting to think that
