When two national industry organizations -- the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals and the National Swimming Pool Foundation -- announced an intent to join as one, it opened up several questions about the feasibility of such a merger and the state of associations in the pool and spa industry. At the beginning of this year, NSPF and APSP decided against such a move, but this did not quell some of the questions that the possibility raised.

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