'Green pools' sprout from home foreclosures (Chicago Tribune)

In Las Vegas and across the West, health officials take measures to keep abandoned swimming pools from breeding mosquitoes and disease. In the arid Southwest, the backyard pool was the equivalent of the white picket fence: a sign the homeowners had achieved middle-class status. But as the foreclosure crisis emptied neighborhoods, the once-gleaming pools -- caked with algae and infested with ..., more