Wave pools are rapidly gaining in popularity and numbers around the world, and the latest news should be exciting for Texas surfers who like their waves a little less salty and a lot more predictable.

One day, maybe five years from now, you think surfers will declare allegiance to the various brands of wave pools? Like how folks do with booze and cigarettes. Will there be Wavegarden diehards, Kelly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time, the first American wave pool, built specifically for surfing, was located in the unlikely town of Tempe, Arizona ...

The surf is flat, ocean water is cold, maybe the wind is mucking up conditions — would you travel a few miles inland and pay for machine-made waves? Developers proposing a surf park in Newport Beach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Gulf Coast of the United States is a beautiful, although surf-starved, region of the country. The waves are inconsistent, the ...

Wavegarden would be the first public surf park on the Treasure Coast. Two other private wave pools are in the works for Fellsmere and Fort Pierce. It’s going to be part of Koa Bay, a development that ...

Abu Dhabi has many of the things that surfers hunt for in their quest for perfect waves: warm weather, year-round sun and clear water. The only thing it did not have was waves. That changed in October ...

It took Kelly Slater, and his team of hydrodynamic engineers, 10 years to build the Surf Ranch…so the story goes. Not to mention the untold amount of dollars that went into such a revolutionary, ...

The manmade wave pool revolution is reaching all four corners of the globe, as now, a new player in the game has emerged in the surf-starved Russian motherland. Vertigo Sports, a wakeboard park ...

As wave pools continue to thrive across the globe, the synthetic surfing is booming. The latest? Saudi Arabia. Perhaps an unlikely destination, yet still pretty spectacular, especially given the first ...

Forget Malibu or the North Shore. Next summer, you can catch a wave in Palm Desert, 100 miles from the nearest ocean. After years of delays, DSRT Surf, the Coachella Valley’s second surf destination, ...