Swimming in the Seine has, with some exceptions, been off-limits since 1923, but a clean-up is underway for the 2024 Olympics.
Because as well as hosting outdoor swim races, the Seine is going to be the centrepiece of Paris' unprecedented Olympic opening ceremony.Officials have been going after homes upstream of Paris and houseboats on the Seine that were emptying their sewage and wastewater directly into the river.Sewage treatment plants on the Seine and its tributary, the Marne, are also being improved.
The giant hole will hold the equivalent of 20 Olympic swimming pools of dirty water that will now be treated rather than being spat raw through storm drains in the river. It says samples taken daily last July and August in the stretch of river where Olympians and Paralympians will compete showed the water quality was overwhelmingly "good".By their sports' standards, that means acceptable.
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