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13 mar 2023 · Last summer, hydrologists measuring fecal bacteria in the Seine at the Olympics’ planned river venue in central Paris found that 90% of samples were already clean enough for swimming,...
23 lip 2024 · Eight years after Paris city officials resolved to clean up the Seine once and for all, the city has declared victory over the E. coli, enterococci and other assorted micro-organisms that for...
2 sie 2024 · Seine swimming had been banned since 1923, the year before Paris last hosted the Olympics, due to the health risk posed by a river contaminated by a city’s wastewater.
17 lip 2024 · After an ambitious $1.5 billion clean-up project, the Seine River will play a leading role in both the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Paris’s famous urban river will serve as...
25 lip 2023 · With a year to go to the Olympics, Paris is in the final phase of a historic clean-up which will soon see swimmers and divers back in the River Seine.
5 sie 2024 · Swimming or bathing in the Seine has been banned since 1923 when the river was deemed unsafe. But all of that is changing thanks to a $1.5 billion project to clean up the Seine in advance of...
30 lip 2024 · A $1.5 billion initiative to revitalize Paris' ancient sewer system and make the Seine river swimmable for the 2024 Summer Olympics has all but collapsed, raising doubts about the river's ...