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It’s only
NATURAL!
The increase in hisper it quietly but one of Natural Swimming Pool – A Guide For
Building. The book is a practical guide for
consumer and
W
the hot tips for the 2009 pool
trade is the emergence of pools which seems well timed to take
natural swimming pools. advantage of the eco interest in pool owners.
professional interest If the level of interest amongst designers A big plus is known to be the natural
and architects is anything to go by the benefits of the water in the pool.
in natural swimming move to more complete eco friendly pools Michael Littlewood’s book explains; “In a
could boom over the next 18 months. natural swimming pool the right biological
pools has never been “We’ve never had such interest in conditions are created, so that there is a
natural swimming pools,” reports the natural balance in the water. In the pool,
higher. To such an Bristol based Clear Water Revival team of water movement has been encouraged by
scientists, ecological engineers, the shallow water zones that slope gently
extent now that eco sustainability consultants and landscape into the deeper waters of the pool. The
designers specialising in natural swimming shallow areas warm up more quickly than
pools which combine pools and natural swimming ponds. the deeper ones and offer the various micro
“It isn’t just consumers. It’s architects, -organisms different living conditions. Cool
a garden environment pool builders, garden designers and other and warmer waters inter mix. In addition the
pool specialists. There’s a huge demand plants in the pool that have been chosen
with swimming have now for information and help about not specifically for their locations also increase
only how to build but how to maintain a the micro-planktons in the water.”
been claimed to add natural pool for swimming. It was always A balanced ecosystem means pathogens
going to be a part of the eco movement and unwanted bacteria are kept under
real long term value but the response has amazed us.” control by the plants and microorganisms
The growth in interest is also reflected in in the regeneration zone, without the need
to properties the publication of Michael Littlewood’s for chemicals or sterilisers.
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