This is such a microcosm of capitalism responding to climate change.

I think I had that shit in my bong in high school

I don't understand why it's so difficult to keep it algae free when we've had swimming pool technology solved for decades

Would actually be a very funny bit if they do nothing about the algae and just insist that the pool is clear.

Just fill it with mercury already. Nice, safe, reflective mercury - perfectly safe, Qin Shi Huang swore by it, lovely man - and NO ALGAE!!!

NANOBUBBLER

The drinking fountain of the future, today!

he'll end up giving the algae 300 billion dollars

The lonesome nanobubbler cranks his algae at night

Nanobubbler? You needed Nanobubbler to clean a pool of basic ass algae? Some contractors really made a killing off these dipshits

I hope someone got a nice bag selling the government this nanobubbler.

If they make it too clean then they'll have to pay even more stopping folks from going for an evening swim

Now the paint is getting stripped away

Blue paint on bottom of Reflecting Pool appears to be peeling away

how fucking hard is it to just bleach the water like it's an actual pool, or is it "supposed to" have some degree of life in it

edit: 1) that's what they're doing with hydrogen peroxide but also yes I guess it's supposed to have a bunch of birds n shit in it

Ah yes, another war they claim they won but actually lost big time.

Bulbulator

they have that blue pond dye stuff for exactly this purpose. it prevents algae and keeps your water blue, and it's nontoxic. it's used all over the place. it might look crass to "dye the water blue" but since when have they cared about looking crass?

If you really wanted it to look blue, why not just put a blue tarp in the water about a foot beneath the surface, then take it out after the festivities and cede the pool back to the algae?