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June 2020

International Swimming Pond Day

2020-05-31T15:20:14+01:00

The International Swimming Pond Day is Saturday, June 20, 2020. To commemorate this International Day, IOB, the international organization of professionals for pools with biological treatment and Bio Piscinas, Lda. invite everyone to send an image of their own biological pool (or the one used on holidays with swimming pond), with or without bathers, [...]

International Swimming Pond Day2020-05-31T15:20:14+01:00

Holidays with swimming pond, for sure!

2020-05-31T15:18:53+01:00

It's time to schedule summer holidays. Holidays with swimming pond, of course! Get inspired here on our map of accommodations with biological pool. The new COVID-19 virus does not like being outside the human body, nor does it like the aquatic environment very much. There are still few studies with viruses in biological pools, [...]

Holidays with swimming pond, for sure!2020-05-31T15:18:53+01:00

Designing swimming ponds since 25 years

2020-05-31T16:47:28+01:00

In the interview landscape architect Claudia Schwarzer reflects on her work with biological pools, which have been a story of success for 25 years. Is water important to you because ...? ... I've always loved water, and I love swimming. In my childhood I played a lot with and near the water and dreamed [...]

Designing swimming ponds since 25 years2020-05-31T16:47:28+01:00

May 2020

Dragonflies

2020-04-30T16:00:15+01:00

Did you know that not only amphibians have a double life? Frogs and toads live first in the water, while young as tadpoles. But also among insects there are species that spend their youth in the water and adult life in the air. We talk about dragonflies and damselflies. More than 60 species live [...]

Dragonflies2020-04-30T16:00:15+01:00

Two types of natural pools

2020-04-30T16:00:41+01:00

Most biological pools are configured as small lakes for bathing. They have a division into two zones, one for bathing and another, which surrounds the first, where the plants that are purifying the water grow. But there are also biological pools of architectural forms (biopool), with basins confusing similar with conventional pools. In these [...]

Two types of natural pools2020-04-30T16:00:41+01:00

Seal “Clean & Safe”

2020-04-30T16:02:24+01:00

In times of the new coronavirus many of the tourist resorts with biological pools are concerned with how to reopen after this crisis. We recommend asking for the “Clean & Safe Establishment” seal for tourism companies, since there are already first destinations with biological pools that just received this distinction now in April. Companies [...]

Seal “Clean & Safe”2020-04-30T16:02:24+01:00

April 2020

May I use the pool?

2020-04-01T10:01:19+01:00

“May I use the biological pool?” That is the question that some owners of biological pools pose this spring. The answer is yes, but there is still a very low water temperature. But this can change quickly as Spring advances. People want to know what happens with the virus in the water, and it [...]

May I use the pool?2020-04-01T10:01:19+01:00

Partition walls

2020-04-01T10:00:42+01:00

In these days the newspapers showed photographs of the famous canals of Venice, but this time with crystal clear water with schools of fish clearly visible. It seems that the absence of traffic with motor boats, which permanently lift up sediments, made the water more transparent. That is, so much movement with boats keeps [...]

Partition walls2020-04-01T10:00:42+01:00

Carbon dioxide sink

2020-04-01T10:00:24+01:00

Over the course of a year, one hundred square meters of aquatic plants in a biological pool can assume about 100 kg CO2. In other words, each biological pool contributes to the fixation of carbon dioxide (because almost all of them have at least 100 m2 of area of ​​aquatic plants). But we have [...]

Carbon dioxide sink2020-04-01T10:00:24+01:00

March 2020

Water snails

2020-03-02T10:32:38+00:00

Water snails are a cleaning weapon in biological pools, and so welcome. Almost all species feed on the so-called biofilm, a living film of microbes, algae and fungi growing above any surface as long as there is enough water. Snails have a strong muscle, a kind of "treadmill", which serves to move them above [...]

Water snails2020-03-02T10:32:38+00:00