Garden Pools and Swimming Ponds: Design, Construction, and Landscape

This book lacks on plumbing lay out aspect or pumps size etc.

Great pics and pretty good on construction specifics, too. The translation from German is a little odd - pond liners are called "foil." The book got me off on some Google searches for "swimming ponds", where I found out how far ahead the Europeans are on this concept of natural, unchlorinated swimming pools. Really some terrific ideas here.

Complete. Lots of pictures. Answers almost all questions. Looked more for survivalist type of installation, but explains all parts of building and maintenance.

This is the kind of book I was looking for. As a person planning on building a swimming pond, I really need as much info as I can get. The author gives sold factual data and a few decent illustrations to enhance the information. He also offers his opinions regarding where a professional is needed, though he allows for a stubborn DIYer by providing info on those aspects of the project as well. I highly recommend this book.

The book is thorough and covers a lot of material but I would like some of it to go into a bit more depth.