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[SuicideJunkie]

What about a way to mark regions as "safe" or "unsafe"?
The pool of 5/7 water, and the shower in your fort entrance could be marked "safe", since you know that the dwarves can't drown in there.

The magma trap overflow channel, on the other hand, could be marked as "unsafe" regardless of the fact that it is dry 99% of the time.

[dwarfhoplite]

Reminds me of Roman bathhouses.

After that Greek amphitheathres with male dorf actors in dresses.

[triato]

id like to have a pool in my fortress.

Medieval idea of no baths was not present in all the world cultures or in all medieval time periods.

[Silverionmox]

id like to have a pool in my fortress.

Medieval idea of no baths was not present in all the world cultures or in all medieval time periods.

As opposed to the popular notion, bathing was common in the middle ages, as is illustrated by the existence of bath houses. The idea of bathing being bad for your health was more of an early modern notion, and in the cities of that time the lack of clear water made that quite sensible.

[Sprin]

I sugested this in more recreation thread I made.

[dray]

A pool glistening around the edges with gorgeous stone engravings of elf-throttlings and misted over by waterfalls at each corner ought to be enough to tweak even the hard-fartingest miner for a quick dip, I'm sure. Just wait until it becomes a cesspool of poisonous forgotten beast blood!

[GreatWyrmGold]

I wouldn't want to see a swimming pool implemented as a stand-alone thing.  It might make some sense as one part of a suite of physical training options if Toady wants to have some sort of gym or obstacle course update.

Why should a swimming pool make dwarves happy?

This. Especially since dwarves are horribly ill-suited to swim (what with the short limbs and stout torsoes and all) and rarely encounter water that they wouldn't want to avoid, what with them usually living in monster-infested caves (or near them) and all, especially since cavern water is dank, cold, and grimy.

Maybe instead of a pool, it should be a bathhouse.

Yeah, that's another idea  And if it is a bath house then maybe Dwarfs could wash themselves there and not in the carp infested river 

This has precedent. This makes sense.

A pool glistening around the edges with gorgeous stone engravings of elf-throttlings and misted over by waterfalls at each corner ought to be enough to tweak even the hard-fartingest miner for a quick dip, I'm sure. Just wait until it becomes a cesspool of poisonous forgotten beast blood!

Well, that stuff makes any room better. I'd imagine dwarves being happier in such a room without having to avoid drowning most of the time.