Whether you have a permanent swimming pool setup or a child's paddling pool, you might be wondering if you can drain your pool water on to the lawn without damaging it. The easiest solution might also ...

MINNEAPOLIS - A 6-year-old girl who sat on an open drain in a wading pool lost part of her intestinal tract to the drain's powerful suction, her family said. Abigail Taylor was injured in the wading ...

CHICAGO — Thousands of public and private pools across the country will have to be retrofitted with new safety equipment after a recall Thursday of drain covers that may not protect swimmers from ...

Eight manufacturers have voluntarily recalled about 1 million pool and in-ground spa drain covers because of incorrect water flow ratings. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall ...

A faulty swimming pool drain cost 6-year-old Abigail Taylor her life. The Edina girl was swimming in a kiddie pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club on June 29, 2007, when she got lodged in an open pool ...

The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department says most of the city's pools and spas still need the anti-drowning drain covers required under a new federal law that goes into effect Friday. But the ...

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Thousands of public pools may be putting your kids at risk this summer, because they're violating a new federal safety rule. The National Swimming Pool Foundation estimates that half of all 300,000 ...

MINNEAPOLIS – A six-year-old girl has been hospitalized after a horrifying accident at a swimming pool, when she sat on an open drain and a powerful suction pump tore out part of her intestinal tract.