CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta June 4, 2024 20:44:00
Just 300,000 public swimming pools, we've seen a drop in public swimming pools and closures over the past couple of decades. >> why have public pools declined, especially as private pools increase exponentially? >> so i think you have to look back to the civil rights era, paula. there are some communities, particularly in the south, that close their public pools rather than integrate them. we also saw the expansion of private swimming pools as the suburbs began to be built in the '50s and '60s. and then cities really came under budget gaps and budget constraints. it's expensive to maintain a p...