Q: I got home from work last night and couldn’t wait to get into my pool to soak away the day, but when I got to the backyard, the pool water was green—not light green, either, but dark. I didn’t even ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic officials say they will drain the larger pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center to remove the green-tinged water. The director of venue management, Gustavo Nascimento, ...

The Olympic diving pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center became discolored during Tuesday’s competition, which has been attributed to algae or high alkalinity levels in the pool. Matt Majendie of the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 13 (UPI) --A spokesman for the Olympic Games in Rio said the reason the swimming and diving pools at the aquatic venue turned green was the mistaken addition of hydrogen peroxide ...

The Rio Olympics ran into a small hiccup on Tuesday when the water in the diving pool mysteriously turned green. Rio officials admitted to not knowing what caused the color change, but it mattered ...

The saga of the water in the diving and water polo pools at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center in Rio de Janeiro is, shall we say, a very colorful tale. When the Olympics began on Aug. 5, the pools were ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Olympic diving chiefs claimed on Wednesday to have solved an embarrassing saga at the Games’ diving arena that turned the competition pool a deep shade of green and left competitors ...

I’m sure anyone installing a swimming pool 30 years ago never dreamed that one day it would be the subject of much controversy. But the state’s drought has made the idea of swimming pools a bit ...

A family exploring in the Israeli desert stumbled across an old pool and decided to take a plunge, despite the color of the water. Simcha Sher, a 31-year-old native of Upstate New York who now lives ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic officials say they will drain the larger pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center to remove the green-tinged water. The director of venue management, Gustavo Nascimento, ...