Category: Swimming Pools

A glass “sky pool” is planned to be suspended between apartment blocks in London’s new Nine Elms quarter, close to Battersea Power Station. The 25-metre-long pool will link two blocks of apartments that form part of the 2,000-home Embassy Gardens development by London architects HAL, now in its second stage. At five metres wide and three…

A firefighter in southern Spain has been dismissed after using a fire engine to fill up his private swimming pool. As much of the country swelters in temperatures well above 30C for several weeks, Juan Pimentel, a veteran of 30 years with the Andalusia fire brigade, has been sacked for what officials described as a…

Miles of great beaches a short bus ride from the centre of Copenhagen plus the clear waters of the city’s inner harbour, mean you are spoilt for choice when swimming in the Danish capital. And many offer free admission, too. Read the Guardian Photo by Risager

In a recently launched “drought education” campaign, trade group the California Pool and Spa Association (CPSA) suggests that installing a backyard swimming hole is an effective — and super-fun! — way to conserve water as the state’s historic dry spell enters its fourth year. In fact, the Let’s Pool Together campaign claims that mindfully maintained residential swimming pools require far less…

Despite the severe drought, Californians built more backyard swimming pools in 2014 than in any year since the peak of the housing boom. And this year the state is on pace to shatter last year’s mark. Listen to NPR Photo by stevendepolo

It’s been nearly two months since the Wellness & Aquatics Complex in Maury County closed but there’s now a new push to reopen the facility’s pools, according to county leaders. Formerly the Maury County YMCA, the WAC was losing money and could not come up with the funding to stay open. It closed in late…

South African President Jacob Zuma will not have to repay public money spent on ‘security upgrades’ to his private residence that included a swimming pool and chicken run, the police minister announced Thursday. Finding that all the upgrades were for necessary for the safety of the head of state, Nkosinathi Nhleko told a news conference:…