I was in Paris three weeks ago and let’s just say I wouldn’t want to swim in the Seine.

Even though the river likely isn't going to be ready to swim in its important to remember that by having this goal significantly increased efforts to actually clean the river.

@ThePursuitWOD

28 күн бұрын

Except the current solutions direction to cleaning the river is just adding temporary fixes to a fundamentally flawed and outdated sewage system.

@MsMarmima

25 күн бұрын

​@@ThePursuitWOD considering how long it would take to update it completely (decades) , I don't see how making progressive improvements in the mean time is a problem

@bagtea

4 күн бұрын

its gonna be the same right after Olympics, so they are just gonna waste money for now lol

They better put these two new retention basins into action quickly! They'll also have to pump clean water into the river daily if they want to meet this deadline!

So that whole river will be polluted one day and then magically clean the whole river by the next day……..? Right…..

@fjuvo

Ай бұрын

Yes. The levels of e-coli rise because of the overflowing of the sewage system due to rain. The bacteria travel downstream within a couple of hours so by next day the levels come back to normal

@jeremy0190

Ай бұрын

The same happens at sea near cities. One day you can swim because it's clean and the other, after a rain, it's forbidden because they found bacteria. I wish this does not happen but I think it's an answer to your comment 😘

@Saucisse_Praxis

Ай бұрын

A river isn't a lake, that should be a big hint.

@visittavee7773

29 күн бұрын

Not one day may be one month?

@vulpo

27 күн бұрын

Antoine Marmier and the other Olympics officials should be required to swim in the river everyday before the athletes. If they don't get sick, then the athletes can go in.

It only looks grey & unappealing because the river traffic churns up the river bed. During Covid lockdown when there was no traffic, the sediment sank to the bottom & you could see clear down for metres. Beautiful blue and green on sunny days. And it can't be that bad because fish do live in the Seine, and swans to eat them.

@rogueorangeindustries187

26 күн бұрын

Sadly that's a naively positive position. Bacteria and virus don't affect all species evenly and Ecoli the one most are worrying about was measured at 200x the American guideline and 20x the Triathlon guideline. I admire the efforts of Paris but they are optimistic at best and disingenuous at worst.

@user-iw9hv2qi3y

26 күн бұрын

再脏的水 一段时间不下雨 都会显得清澈 因为脏东西沉淀了

To build confidence, olympic officials should swim and drink the water.

@josephvalerio6665

29 күн бұрын

No rational person would expect someone to drink directly from a river in a major city. I swim in a very clean pool but i don't drink that water either.

what, sewage was just dumped in the river before?

@jakob7116

Ай бұрын

As I understand it basically a huge amount of sewage is dumped when the sewage overfills after it rains

@EnterTheFenix

Ай бұрын

was there a few weeks ago... even though the temp was only about 5-10 degrees, it stank like grey water. as did a lot of the Vendome area

@vsznry

Ай бұрын

@@jakob7116 Just like in New York.

@benoitcransac2178

Ай бұрын

only when it rained hard

@scorpioninpink

Ай бұрын

That is how sewage facilities were always done in old cities like Paris and even London.

That river been filthy for over a century. They think it can be clean up in 10 years? Good luck!

I really hope they come up with a plan B in case it’s not clean in time because while swimming in the Seine would be cool, it’s not worth risking the health of the athletes coming to compete.

Paris is a beautiful city, but it is so artificial. I wish they would welcome back a bit of nature to the banks of the river. Imagine walking down a sandy beach into the clean fresh waters of the Seine, with clumps of willows on its baks and the Eiffel tower or Notre Dame to gaze upon?

@Floweriisky

Ай бұрын

I saw they had plans to make Paris greener a while ago, I’m not sure how those plans may be going or if they include the Seine.

@pathallam986

Ай бұрын

Sandy beaches aren't natural in a city. They used to create an artificial beach during July & August but stopped because the imported sand was depleting real beaches elsewhere in France. A lot of work has & is being done to increase vegetation like trees and gardens around the city but a lot of it is unnoticed by visitors because it is in local neighbourhoods, not touristy areas.

@jeffmeyer9319

Ай бұрын

@@pathallam986 Well, maybe a river which isn't given enough room doesn't have sandy/gravelly/rockiness, is more likely, unless mitigation is built in to cause lighter material to settle out and form the sandy beach. It used to be we wanted to get away from nature, now we want more of it, because we can and it's healthier for one's soul. In Seattle we have sandy/gravelly beaches on the shores of our downtown.

What a beautiful cover! Truly enchanting

@OnlyFactsAndData4829

26 күн бұрын

Propoganda

Did anyone else noticed she said 2025?

It is impossible to get it ready in time for the olympics. Hopefully they do get it ready in 2025 which is their stated goal for their citizens to be able to freely swim in any time they want.

Congratulations. OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024.

so no one remembers the story of Katherine Hepburn? who fell in the water in Venice and had a life long eye problem. Its foolish to not be cautious about this.

This doesn't encourage any guaranteed safety.

Depends on what the weather plays ball. Where she walks in the video might be flooded...

The swimers will have to pay the ultimate price for this experiment. I'm just waiting for someone to come out and say this was a very elobarate joke.

Kudos to DW

Make the water pooply again

Free New Calidona

100 years between Paris Olympics 1924-2024.

Just came back from Paris trip, I wouldn’t even put my feet in the Seines river for a second !

NOW hooked up to the city's sewage system. So prior? What in the...

The answer is NEVER

Pas possible

Pasig River has chance to host Olympics

@arselenebitara1356

8 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂

What is plan B? OBVIOUSLY the Seine won't be ready.

That's dirty dirty water. Toxic by the looks of it. Are they going to ask athletes to dip in that cesspool?

@benoitcransac2178

Ай бұрын

did you listen at all?

@EliF-ge5bu

Ай бұрын

@@benoitcransac2178 Do you trust the French authorities to do as they claim here? I don't.

if i were an athlete i'd drop out that river is full of microplastics even if everything else is cleaned

@Deletedcommentfactory

29 күн бұрын

Literally everything and everyone is full of microplastics.

Oh the delusion

Thank goodness purity of uncontaimination won't challenge the health of athletes

I wouldn't 😅

Well, I love that dirty water

i would NEVER swim in that River! never ever

I wouldn’t stick my finger in that water. Disgusting and polluted. No one should swim in the Seine river.

Lol, where else are you gonna dump your sewage? How could you possibly clean that river? Lmfao 😂

Why do they need a tank with 24 olympic swimming pools of sewage? One, maybe two if you want to be really sure is enough for the olympic games I'd reckon..

@KyrilPG

28 күн бұрын

Did you watch the video? The retention basin is here to hold the mix of rain water and sewer during a saturation event. The system in Paris is very old and does not separate rain water from sewage water, so, when there's important rainfall, the sewers and treatment facilities are overwhelmed, causing the system to spill over into the Seine river. The huge new retention system allows the sewers to overflow into the tank instead of the river, so that the water can be processed entirely in the treatment plants over a longer period before being released clean in the river. It's an overflow tank, so it needs to be huge to hold as much water as possible and not release untreated water into the river for most rain events. If it only held the equivalent of 3 swimming pools, it would only be sufficient for some days and not most heavy rain days. With its current gigantic size, it should be able to prevent overflow into the river on at least 3 quarters of heavy rain days. Only the most extreme rainfalls would saturate the system now. So, the pollution events should drastically decrease in frequency and intensity.

@vulpo

27 күн бұрын

Maybe it would have been better to just build Olympic swimming pools, so the Olympic athletes wouldn't have to swim in filthy water.

Europe and USA having very high standards for govt properties

Athletes will NEVER swim there for the 2024 Games.

That river is disgusting dirty and smells like shlt.. compared to the river in Lyon

I was once thrown in the Schuykill and I'm still alive. Just saying.

I stopped caring about the Olympic decades ago. It's too messed up.

The americans got to the moon in the 1960s and here we are 60 years later and the french can't seem to clean a river

@giovannimartin9576

Ай бұрын

The Hudson and the Potomac are not that clean either.

@91mrmister

Ай бұрын

I think after seeing the evidence we can all agree the Americans did NOT go to the moon. Newsflash it was a HOAX

@ethanquenum4778

29 күн бұрын

The intelligence in that country has plummeted.

@sharpasacueball

24 күн бұрын

@@giovannimartin9576 Yeah but they are not holding swimming competitions in it either

@admar1208

23 күн бұрын

to be fair the US isn't doing so well either when it comes to cleanliness.

Countries that should be banned from the 2024 Olympics Australia, Guatemala, Egypt, Israel, Paraguay, Bahrain America, India, Morocco United Kingdom, Europeen Union, Argentina France, Jodan, Sudan Germany, UAE, Candia Saudi Arabia, Can you think of any others. I ask that athletes decide for themselves if they should go to this years Olympics if these countries are not banned. Thanks.

To these who plan to come to Paris for Olympics, please cancel your trip! Paris is turning into a dictatorship for that event! Please people help us and boycott olympics game!

@lyudmilanazemtseva9309

Ай бұрын

What do you mean???

@PauloAdriano-zo2ng

Ай бұрын

​@@lyudmilanazemtseva9309 It's pretty clear. Why do you need to ask? 🤔

@JCJC-sg8qv

Ай бұрын

@@lyudmilanazemtseva9309 What do i mean? just read the rules that will be in place in Paris during that event. Probably no one talk about that overseas...people are not informed.

@yorha26b

Ай бұрын

​@@JCJC-sg8qvthen tell us what are they

@nunchucknads3644

Ай бұрын

Ok. I’ll vacation at Mar-a-Lago instead. Totally normal place.