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A Green Chlorine Free Public Pool!
“純天然”泳池，你見過嗎?
Would you swim in a public pool that didn’t look like the pools of yore?
你是否想過在一個與眾不同的公共泳池里暢游一番呢？
No blue water with the wafting smell of chlorine lingering about?
再也不是那種氯氣撲鼻的藍色泳池？
For a long time, there were only two ways to access a "naturally filtered" pool: live in Europe or be prepared to spend lots of money.
自古以來，“天然泳池”對多數人來說是一種奢望：除非你生活在歐洲或是已經準備好大肆揮霍銀子。
Natural pools use plant life, rocks, and other biological filters to eliminate the need for cleansing chemicals and can resemble ponds or lakes on the interior.
天然泳池是指通過植物，巖石等一些生物的天然過濾作用代替化學清洗劑，與室內的人造池塘或人造湖類似。
For decades natural pools have existed in Europe, many of them open to the public now.
幾十年來，天然泳池在歐洲比較普遍,并且有很多已經對公眾開放。
In the States, with restrictions and state-mandated regulations around the use of chemicals for bacteria,
而美國對化學除菌有明文規定，
natural pools haven't been an option for most communities.
大多數地區并未修建天然泳池。
But that's about to change — at least, if you live in Minneapolis.
然而，這種泳池已經開始出現——至少在明尼阿波里斯市已初見苗頭。
Minneapolis is about to open the first all-natural, chlorine-free public swimming pool in the United States.
明尼阿波利斯市即將成為美國首個修建純天然，沒有氯氣的公共游泳的地區。
It's called the Webber natural pool, and the project has taken over four years and $6 million of funding,
這個天然泳池名為“韋伯”，泳池的修建已經歷時4年，資金投入也多達600萬美元，
not to mention the numerous legal hurdles and construction delays,
雖然修建期間出現法律障礙，施工延誤等問題，
but it's finally coming to fruition and soon there will be swimmers heading into its green waters.
但總有一天這個項目會竣工，游泳愛好者們就能好好享受這池天然綠水啦。
譯文屬可可英語原創，未經允許，不得轉載。
