Today you receive the first issue of our joint newsletter from Naturaleza y Arte and theBIOPOOL. In the future, we want to inform you at regular intervals about our exemplary projects for sustainable water use and landscape architecture.

Sincerely yours

Stefan Meier & Team

World Environment Day has been celebrated on June 5th since 1972 and we are participating since 2013. In Jesus from 2013 to 2019 and this year on Saturday 4th of Jumeat the ECOUC environmental fair in Santa Eularia.
You will find our stand together with our collaborators from itmatters, Alianza por el Agua and IbizaPreservation.

Green is "in". On an international level, ecological approaches and nature- based solutions (NbS) are increasingly promoted, both politically and scientifically. The EU wants to lead the way (EU Green Deal) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has presented the concept of a natural swimming pond/pool (NSP) as a good example for a NbS. 

https://www.iucn.org/sites/dev...

The water treatment is purely biological-mechanical, following the example of nature. The water quality has to be achieved through nutrient management, using the natural feeding chain. To balance the nutrients which are imported into the system by users or the wind, biomass has to be harvested in form of plants, sediments or bio film. That is why NSPs are carbon-sinks, during their life span they fix more CO2 than it is produced by production, running and dismantling.

“Ecological pools" which are not biological at all.

In the search for customers, some companies switch to "greenwashing" and sell their products as something they are not. In extreme cases, this can lead to the situation where a customer understands to buy something natural and biological, but instead receives a poisonous dummy package.

Hybrid pools use a different form of disinfection where resistant water organisms may survive. That allows the use of border plants to give a natural look. But the biology is not the base of the water purification, as most of the life forms are killed by the disinfectant agents. It is just deco. The usual disinfection techniques are UV lamps, copper and silver ions and electrolysis. That is all fine as long as they are sold as what they are: chemically poisoned.

What is completely wrong is: to sell a Hybrid pool as a Natural swimming Pond/Pool! That is green washing and unfair competition. Unfortunately that happens as well on Ibiza.