Triathletes Swim in Seine River

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No, The Seine Cleanup Wasn't a Failure

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Olympic triathletes took part in the Seine triathlon in Paris on July 31 .

Seine swimming had been banned since 1923 , the year before Paris last hosted the Olympics , due to the health risk posed by a river contaminated by a city’s wastewater.

French authorities want swimmers to be able to enjoy the river once again from next summer , at three permanent dedicated sites in Paris , with 20 or so more sites planned.

Water-quality data from last summer shows the Seine was unswimmable roughly 30 percent of the time.

But Paris was n’t enduring extreme rainfall a third of the.

time.

Experts argue how water-monitoring is done, and what information is shared with the public and when, also has to improve.

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