Paris Wants the River Seine to Be Open for Swimming by 2024

By 2024, the River Seine in Paris will be clean enough to swim in. That’s the grand ambition declared by Paris’s City Hall this week. Parts of the Canal Saint Martin, which flows through eastern Paris into the Seine itself, could even be fit to bathe in as early as 2017 should the proposed cleanup go according to plan. Announced in the run-up to Paris’s bid for the 2024 Olympics, the city has even suggested staging such events as the swimming triathlon in the city’s river.
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