Paris inaugurates giant water storage basin to clean up the River Seine for Olympic swimming
it’s a gigantic structure meant to bring Paris one step closer to its promise of hosting the Olympics free swimming event in the Sun the game serve as a pretext an accelerator but above all we do this for the long-term Legacy and on a personal level I think it’s wonderful this is exactly our vision for these Olympic games games that serve a territory the residence and the environment too because there is less pollution in the natural environment last year’s test events in the sun had to be cancelled due to poor water quality one reason was heavy rains that overwhelmed the city’s old sewers causing them to overflow into paris’s main river at an estimated cost of 1.4 billion e this Reservoir aims to collect storm water and overflowing sewage and domestic waste water before directing them to treatment centers this structure enables us to move the events back a few days in case their major climate shocks but we won’t have to cancel them all together for decades the sen was mainly used as a Waterway for the transport of goods and people and sometimes as an open air dump for Industries and citizens swimming there has mostly been prohibited since 1923 but the threat of a fine or disease won’t stop these parision they’ve already been swimming in the Sun for over a year this part of the canal looks relatively clean we go swimming and we’ve never really had any health problems on the other hand the sen in central Paris seems a bit dirtier so it’s already swimmable and we’re already enjoying it a lot the river sen is also said to be at the heart of the grandio opening ceremony of the Olympics although these plans could change for security reasons
French officials inaugurated on Thursday a huge water storage basin meant to help clean up the River Seine, set to be the venue for marathon swimming at the Paris Games and the swimming leg of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlons.
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3 comments
Wow riverside Olympic 🎆🎇
Why is it so punchy looks like something that was built in the 60s
This will bankrupt france