In 2010, three friends visioned and decided they were going to build a water-filtering floating swimming pool in New York for everybody to swim in.
From the desire to swim in a clean and natural river without fear, and without having to travel out of the New York City; these three friends planned and crowd-funded to see their dream of swimming in the New York River comes alive.
They came up with an idea to create a giant filtration system disguised as a pool to the not-so-fresh waters separating Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The plus-shaped pool will provide a clean and safe way for the public to swim in New York’s waters. You can learn more about the Plus Pool by watching the video below
The pool is like a giant strainer dropped into the middle of the river that cleans close to 600,000 gallons of sea water every day to make the waters clean, natural and safe for swimmers.
Below are more images showing the pool design.
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Image source: kickstarter.com
IS THE FLOATING POOL IN A RIVER A NEW IDEA?
When I came across the plus pool, I was surprised and marveled at how creative the idea is.
I live in Lagos, and I can say we have one of the dirtiest sea waters. I desire to see a floating pool in the waters of Lagos too.
At first, I thought the idea of having a clean and safe pool in a river or sea was unique and new until I saw this video
Yes, I was surprised too.
The idea was not new, in fact, floating pools were dated back to the early years of the twentieth century.
WHO IS FUNDING THIS INNOVATIVE PROJECT?
Generating the necessary funds for the completion of this architectural project was becoming challenging.
After countless of meetings and presentations to almost every Government department in the City of New York, the team at Plus Pool finally took a bold step.
They turned to the people of the Internet to fund their project and get incentives for being the project backer. The team published a Kickstarter.com campaign ask the public to fund the idea of having a pool in the river.
Image source: kickstarter.com
They will give each backer a tile with his/her name inscribed onto the tile.
On the grand opening of the pool, the backer will have a tile on the pool that his name is inscribed on.
Image source: kickstarter.com
Image source: kickstarter.com
Image source: kickstarter.com
Imagine having your name permanently etched into the history of making the world's first water-filtering floating pool? If you love to see the pool, support the Kickstarter campaign.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/694835844/pool-tile-by-tile
You can learn more about Plus Pool from its official website here https://www.pluspool.org/
This is a great idea, would love to see it come to fruition. If this is successful it could see mass adoption and be used worldwide, which would be great
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The power lies with You and I. You can inscribe your name to a tile as a backer
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That's a great initiative, will look into it more, but would like to see it in other parts of the world too
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Amazing photographs of the water-filtering floating swimming pool in New York sir, i think this efforts really helpful for the citizens that they can now swim in new york waters and they don't even have to move outside the city, i really appreciate the efforts of these three guys it's no doubt a great induction to the city.
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Meepsky!
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beeeeep
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You will appreciate them more when you swim in the pool one day.
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We definitely need one in Lagos
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Good post
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For sure, It is part of the Plus Pool plan. I can't wait to see it.
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That's a nice idea and all, but just imagine the amount of people in the pool at the same time... It's New York City, the highest populated city in the world isn't it? But if it works, way to go!
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You are absolutely right! But we shall wait and see how it goes.
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What an amazing idea, this evidently could be used in every river world wide making the water clean again.
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Incredible. Oyibo bu agbara!
Having said so, it is a cool idea but wouldn't such a large-scale filtration project be amazing as a way of cleaning up the dirty water to begin with?
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This is beautiful... can you see my name on the tile? lol
nice work you got here.
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Yes! Thank you.
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I live in Michigan, where water is a hot topic. Thousands of Detroiters face water shut-offs and those in Flint are battling the state for lead-free water. The Detroit River is a gnarly stretch of water - thanks to industrial contamination and bacteria - that would greatly benefit from such a pool. I hope this idea catches on and spreads across the country. Thanks for sharing this with us and for your upvote on my comment on another post. Follwed! (borderline power :( )
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woow..
amazing
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Yeah, truly amazing!
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Hello, Good Work, keep it up... :) Enjoy your time here in Steemit... It's a great community! Wish you Good Luck! ** I will follow your account, please follow me at @space-man
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Thanks man! Enjoy Steemit too, It is indeed a great community.
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I wish I get there someday
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For sure! It is for everyone.
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You are right
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beautiful pictures .. great idea...
upvoted..!!!
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Thank you!
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Nice upvoted and followed you
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Wow
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Boss.. This is awesome!
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Wow Amazing
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