A Cool Pool

Here's an interesting urban initiative in New York.

After the last sweltering summer there, +Pool began a proposal for a public pool that would float in one of the rivers of New York City. An innovative filtration system would make it possible to use actual river water in the pool. The pool designers are raising funds for the project on Kickstarter.

+ Pool says 'as a New Yorker, you spend most of your time on an island surrounded by water, and when it gets as sweltering hot as it does in New York, you naturally start fantasizing about swimming in the river. But the rivers here aren’t the cleanest and swimming in them isn’t necessarily the best idea. We wanted to do something that could change that'.

It's a cool pool and an idea that could be used in many other places in the world.

See you in your swimmers.

Francesco ...