How dirty is the Seine after spending billions of euros to clean it up? | DW News

the s in Paris the most iconic River with the most romantic use but for decades it was off limits for simers p a billion EUR cleanup made it less dirty for the 2024 Olympics Paris aims to make the sense swimmable again it’s not just for athletes but for everyone let’s look back the last Olympic swimmers competed in the sen in 1900 thereafter the water quality worsened due to Industrial sewage and population growth by the 1924 Olympics it was banned to swim in the river now Paris is in the final stages of those 1.4 billion revitalization project just St away from the 2024 Olympics the Olympic and Par Olympics events are supposed to take place right here in these Waters and the city plans a couple of open air swimming areas that will open to the public after the games but despite of improvements recent Studies have shown that the sand is not as clean as hope for this is due to harmful bacteria and Paris notorious red population but French president emmanu Marco and the mayor of Paris anido still believe it’s possible they both announced before the Olympics begin they will swim in

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8 comments

  2. You better get the right biologics in there to clean it up right, or you're going to be sorry. Here's hoping you keep it clean from here on out. It would be shameful to not only waste all that money, but even worse to see it revert. It's a lot easier to keep something clean than it is to clean in the first place. I'll never see it, but it would be nice to see something cleaned instead of polluted. I thought France was finally taking a leading role in foreign politics until I heard the far right is taking over. I see Russia has got their teeth into you guys now too.

  3. Chicago IL’s “deep tunnel” project has made the river one of the cleanest urban rivers in the world, with dozens of species of fish, birds and small mammals living all along its length. It is even swimmable on a good day. But all that work started in the 1970’s and never stopped. Cities, and societies, are multi-generational projects that we are born into, participate in, but will never be “complete.”

  6. Last month, a reporter asked macron when he'll swim in the river, he replied, if I tell you, you will be there, right?😅

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