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December 2024

Arneiro Garden House

2024-12-01T09:13:32+00:00

A new tourism with organic pool recently opened its doors. This is a local accommodation called Arneiro Garden House, located in a historic house, located in Aldeia Galega da Merceana near Alenquer, in Portuguese Estremadura. The house is cozy, with modern and contemporary interiors, and caters for up to 12 people. It has shady [...]

Arneiro Garden House2024-12-01T09:13:32+00:00

Attraction of water

2024-12-01T09:12:55+00:00

Water captures all of our attention. It's not by chance. We need water for our life and for our survival. Without water there is no life, we already learned about it at school. So, it is completely natural that water plays such an important role for us. There are even more benefits of water, [...]

Attraction of water2024-12-01T09:12:55+00:00

Carbon sequestration

2024-12-01T09:12:39+00:00

Could biological pools, such as ponds and lagoons, emit gases contributing to global warming? Or is the opposite the case, are they carbon sinks? There are no studies yet for natural swimming pools but there are already studies for natural ponds, which are the models in nature when building a biological pool. These studies [...]

Carbon sequestration2024-12-01T09:12:39+00:00

November 2024

Garden fair

2024-11-01T07:15:46+00:00

Next Saturday, November 2nd, 2024, at 3 p.m., there will be a presentation "Natural swimming ponds" as part of the Autumn Fair Mediterranean Gardening in Lagoa. A biological pool can be the key piece in a garden, it can form a kind of aquatic garden, rich in plants, with the versatility of allowing you [...]

Garden fair2024-11-01T07:15:46+00:00

Mossy Earth video

2024-11-01T07:15:09+00:00

The competence of Bio Piscinas, Ltd. managers, Claudia Schwarzer, landscape architect, and Udo Schwarzer, biologist, in the area of ​​habitat restoration is increasingly sought after. Result of this development is the collaboration with Mossy Earth organization, where young experts bring together nature conservation issues with communication on social media. A vídeo was recently released [...]

Mossy Earth video2024-11-01T07:15:09+00:00

Poster

2024-11-12T08:48:59+00:00

Nature-based solutions such as biological swimming pools are part of global nature restoration activities, because they offer social services, that is, to people (the pleasure of bathing) and also provide an aquatic habitat for flora and fauna species. Therefore, the subject of biological pools is presented in a poster at the International Pond Conference [...]

Poster2024-11-12T08:48:59+00:00

October 2024

Backswimmers

2024-10-01T09:43:58+01:00

Backswimmers are small water insects, up to 2-3 centimeters long, living in different aquatic habitats, including biological pools. As they belong to aquatic cockroaches they are capable of biting, but they do not. There is only one situation when people need to take some care with this animal. That is, when caught with netting. [...]

Backswimmers2024-10-01T09:43:58+01:00

Converted pool

2024-10-01T09:43:14+01:00

Converting an existing pool into a biological pool is something that seems simple and logical, but there are some challenges in the planning and construction phase. Transforming an old, dilapidated pool is less delicate. Often, the condition and age of the building itself require drastic interventions or renovations. The opposite is the case with [...]

Converted pool2024-10-01T09:43:14+01:00

Outdoor living

2024-10-01T09:42:58+01:00

Enjoying more free time around the house began as an obligation during the pandemic years, when many people invested more in their homes and gardens, increasing the quality of being at home and around. Breathing fresh air in your own garden, installing quality seating for multiple uses in the space outside the house, even [...]

Outdoor living2024-10-01T09:42:58+01:00

September 2024

Limit-Values for water quality

2024-09-01T08:35:03+01:00

In Portugal there is a legal void regarding the regulation of installation and operation of biological swimming pools for public use, as the legal regime that regulates the quality of bathing water or swimming pools for public use not being applicable. The water quality assessment parameters of the legal regime for indoor bathing waters [...]

Limit-Values for water quality2024-09-01T08:35:03+01:00
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