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It's been in the work for quite a while. The mayor of Paris announced that the seine will be open for swimming in 5 years ... In 1988.
So it took a bit longer than planned, almost 50 years instead of 5 but the fact that they are opening it now is the result of these 50 years of continuous improvement.
1988 wasn't almost 50 years ag... Shit.
Wait, I messed up. It's almost 40 years ago, not 50
Closer to 50 than to 5, that's for sure.
It's controlled every day and closed if there's any danger, for example after heavy rains bringing more pollution than usual. They have started finding different forms of life that only happen in very clean waters, it's pretty cool. One of the few positive ecological news lately.
Still wouldn't trust it.
It's been a poop river for hundreds of years and they haven't separated out sewer from storm water yet.
I think it's mediagenic enough that journalists and other organizations probably tried to do their own tests and found nothing suspicious that wasn't officially announced.
By the Olympic Games 2024, the work to improve the infrastructure to prevent pollution already costed 1.4 billions of euros. I guess additional infrastructure for exceptional meteorological events was just too much to be justified.
If the water is tested every day of the opened swimming season, there's no reason to worry.
That it won't immediately kill you doesn't mean it's good for you.
Do you avoid every kind of nature swimming? What if the tests say that it is as clean as the river or sea you trusted to swim before?
No thanks I'll stick to my local secret lake that nobody shits in
Fish fuck in it.
Problem?
Jokes on you, I’m already there, shitting.
OK I'm on my way to literally murder you so you have ten minutes to clean up or else
Move over I was shitting here first.
Can we hold hands?
Why not, let's show that turd who's boss.
And this is why while while everyone was bitching about how much money this will cost i was just thinking about how nice it will be when you can finally swim in it again. Of course there is a lot of long term infrastructure that needs to be built so big rains dont flush all the shit into it but still good news. It was also smart of the mayor to do this "for" the olympics.
Friends with a pool had a sign saying "don't pee in our pool, we don't swim in your toilet". In Paris however...
I assume embarrassment on the world stage helped move this along given the Olympics?
Who knew anything good could result from the Olympics
Reason #4,538 why I'll never live in or near a large city.
You won't live near cities that clean up their waterways? You could rival Michelin publishing that list of reasons you have.
My local waterways aren't so fucking filthy that swimming has been banned for a century. We spent the 4th happily boating (electric!), swimming, fucking around on the local river, no thoughts of foul water.
There is always a big city upstream
Or a farm with fertilizer runoff. Or rural industrial site, like oilfield, mine, chemical plant...
Neat