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You'll want to take a dip in these beautiful, sustainable pools. When managed properly, natural swimming pools have crystal-clear water and require no chemicals to maintain because they are ...

Natural swimming pools are a wonderful alternative to traditional pools. They blend in with the surrounding landscape, they look beautiful, and they're designed to work without chlorine. As a result, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The water cleaning philosophy in a regular pool is to kill everything in the water short of the swimmer,” Sophia Elniff of The ...

What’s better than having your own backyard swimming pool? How about having a pool that relies on an underground garden to filter the water rather than chlorine and other harsh chemicals? Alan Barlis, ...

There's nothing like a good, old-fashioned swimming hole to beat the heat this summer. Here's where to find the best spots all across the country. This naturally-fed spring lives up to its name: The ...

The first hint that there is something unusual about the new outdoor swimming pool at Borden Park in Edmonton, Alberta, is what isn’t there—that insidious but telltale odor of chlorine. This is ...

The ultimate backyard flex was once a rectangular in-ground pool, its turquoise water glimmering under the sun. In today’s luxury market, that symbol seems almost quaint, as designers push the ...

Often beautiful in theory, many ponds end up as stagnant corners of the garden that don’t quite earn their keep. But what if you could swap your unloved water feature for something a little more ...

Growing up playing in the frigid ponds of Wisconsin, Rex Boggs became used to sharing a pool with fish, frogs and egrets. For him, it was the way swimming ought to be. So when he and his wife Katy ...