I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!!!

Everyone down here (FL) has pools and they are all full of chlorine so I rarely swim. This is an awesome option, I'll have to remember this when I buy my property. Great for a dipping pool/back yard landscaping.

thanks so much for posting this!! I had saved something like it long time back, and lost the bookmark. Brilliant thinking. This is how to do permaculture--And swimming!!!! and have a portion of the water feed the garden... and use the greywater for the pond. I was thinking about doing this for my mom's place. Now you've got me thinking stained concrete again. Remember, you can "ground"/earth through concrete, but not through wood., And now, you can do such beautiful things with concrete, outdoors and indoors, with staining, painting, impressing, enscribing,(words for Christopher and Schulze) waxing...

:-) Ah, the distinct pleasures of the armchair designer. :-)

Chiron

while I found it very picturesque and very 'natural' and serene, I couldn't figure out why it sort of freaked me out with the thought of being in the water and actually doing any swimming in there.

I found I couldn't even look at the pictures, so I thought WTH is my problem?? HA! Then I realized it was because I kept picturing snakes..and alligators and other things being there and that was what was making me freak out! LOL
Oh geez. Well, it really is a very lovely concept.