This whole Reflection Pool fiasco is like some low-risk, trivial version of the Soviet Chernobyl disaster.

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4. The pool has always been algae infested

The pool just wasn't designed to have sparkling water.

Draining and cleaning the pool is a ritual.

It's a reflection of Trump's vanity. He's so vain. He claimed he was "gonna fix it for 100 years"...LOL.....

The liner needs to be removed because animals can get to it, and birds can carry it off and use it in nests etc. But other than that it's a reflection of Trump's vanity.

There is a natural pond near me that goes beyond green in the summer. It's disgusting, but the springs dry up and it turns into a fetid mess. But it's natural. And it's on a nature trail. Yet, somehow the fish survive! Algae will always be there.

The reflecting pool just isn't a swimming pool. It has some water circulation that prevents it from becoming a stagnant pond, but that's it.

Trump's folly was that he tried to make it look like a swimming pool by using a liner, He also apparently put in an ozone purifier, to help oxygenate the water, but I have no idea if this purifier can handle a pool that size.

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I think the wrecking the East Wing is a much worse environmental disaster.