Obviously, if a child does not come in contact with the pool water, there can be no drowning or near-drowning accident. There are two components to environmental control.
Regulation is one.
But regulation is not enough. Parents and child-care givers must become safety partners with the government agency that legislates or regulates any potential danger. Parents actually have the most important role in environmental control, because no government can watch every child. Parents must see that the regulation pool fence is locked and ensure that there are no chairs, tables or toys nearby that a child might use to climb over the pool fence. And this is still not enough.