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A water bag solid cover is an inexpensive rectangular tarp held down by water tubes or water boxes. These do not qualify as safety covers. It is not form fitted to your pool. The advantages/disadvantages are the same as for the fitted solid cover (above). The exception is they last only a season or two before they become ineffective in keeping out rain water. We find they are so cheaply made any more, that Heschmeyer Pools will no longer sell this type of cover. 

Hybrid solid-mesh covers are fitted covers that are anchored to the pool deck. They are mostly solid material but have a mesh panel in the middle to prevent some puddling. This means a portion of any rain water seeps into your pool via the middle mesh panel, yet it pools elsewhere on the cover. You can't add a pump to prevent this without risking pumping all the water though the mesh panel, so the cover is never fully dry. You get neither the advantages of a solid cover nor the advantages of a mesh cover, yet pay a premium price.