Child Safety, Swimming Pool | featured news

The new rule means many public pools can no longer rely on drain covers alone to prevent children from drowning or being injured.

A child dies in a portable pool every five days during warm-weather months, according to the first U.S. study on child drownings in such pools, a statistic that the study's senior author says demonstrates the need for consumer education and affordable protection devices....

Children's lives are at risk in swimming pools across the country as government agencies waffle on how to enforce a new federal law, child safety advocates say.